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Binnenhof palace, place of Parliament in The Hague at dusk
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Take a trip to The Hague on your Netherlands vacation.

When on Netherlands vacations, you should visit The Hague which is the third-largest city in the Netherlands and lies on the North Sea. It is known as the "judicial capital of the world" because of the many international courts that are located here such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal and Court. The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government, parliament, and the Supreme Court and home to more than 150 international organizations, multinational companies and embassies (it is not the capital – which honour belongs to Amsterdam).  

There is much exceptional architecture to see in The Hague on a Netherlands tour. There are two former royal palaces, the Kneuterdijk Palace, built in 1716 and now home to the Council of State of the Netherlands and the Lange Voorhout Palace, now occupied by the Escher Museum, dedicated to Dutch graphical artist M. C. Escher. The heart of the city contains most of the historic architecture from the medieval, renaissance, and Baroque periods and is easy to walk around. 

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The Binnenhof has been the seat of the country’s government. It used to be a castle and is surrounded by the Court Pond in whose waters, the old buildings are mirrored. Entering the Binnenhof, you find yourself in a medieval enclosed courtyard, surrounded by architecture from the 13th to the 19th Centuries. In the middle stands the Knight's Hall, used for ceremonial purposes. The Lange Voorhout is a large tree-lined square, bordered on all sides by 18th Century townhouses. The large Baroque building on the west side is the home to the Dutch supreme court. The square is especially pretty in spring when its crocuses are in bloom. Every summer, the square hosts The Hague Sculpture, a free outdoor sculpture exhibition to be enjoyed on Netherlands vacations. 

Activity, night and day, centres on the two main squares of the city, the Plein which has several large sidewalk cafés, where often politicians may be spotted and the Grote Markt ("Great Market") which is always full of chairs and tables, summer or winter. The Denneweg is a street with antique and specialty shops. It also has a number of good pubs and restaurants. The Paleis Noordeinde is the royal palace that Queen Beatrix uses as her office. It is not open to the public. The gardens on the opposite side of the palace are accessible to the public for walking.  

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