A small, beautiful museum in a 17th-century palace beside the Dutch Parliament, with Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft, Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, and Fabritius's The Goldfinch.
Allow two hours. Afterwards walk past the Binnenhof parliament buildings (under renovation) and out to the seaside resort of Scheveningen. Delft, the home of Vermeer and blue-and-white pottery, is 15 minutes away by tram.
Rotterdam, rebuilt after the bombing of 1940, is the Netherlands' city of bold modern architecture.
The world's most famous flower garden, where around 7 million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths bloom in 32 hectares of parkland every spring.
Nineteen 18th-century windmills standing in rows along the canals of a polder near Rotterdam, built to pump water out of the low-lying land.
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The canal house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years in a secret annex behind a moving bookcase, until they were betrayed…
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