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Hotels for 12, 14 and the final on 16 May 2020 around Ahoy Rotterdam The Eurovision Song Contest has been an annual presentation and competition of songs since 24 May 1956 and is broadcast on television throughout Europe; since 1967 the festival has also been broadcast in countries outside Europ...

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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at...

Claire Morgan - The Sound of Silence: 8 Oct 2016 t/m 8 Jan 2017.  This autumn, the Noordbrabants Museum will exhibit the intriguing work of a young artist from Northern Ireland, Claire Morgan. After successful exhibitions abroad, including in Britain, this will be her first solo museum ex...

Reflex Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of the work of Donald Baechler this September 2016. This will be the first extensive exhibition in the Netherlands for the world-famous American artist. One of the few continuously active members of the ...

500.000 tulips in bloom during the 2nd edition of Tulp Festival in Amsterdam 60 locations , 400 varieties, walking and bike routes. For the second year in succession, Amsterdam will be decked in the most glorious colours, throughout April and May. During the Tulp Festival 2016 visitors can mar...

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A long list of landmarks in the Netherlands. We have this list in alphabetical order to find the city of your choice. Aalden Golfclub de Gelpenberg Book hotels close to this landmark Aalsmeer Aalsmeer Flower Auction Book hotels close to this landmark Aalten Aalten Station Book hotels close to ...

Exhibition On the road – Traveling with the photographer - 16 September 2016 to 8 January 2017. The exhibition On the road – Traveling with the photographer in the National Archives of the Netherlands shows how travelling and photography have become inextricably bound to each other...

International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam. This year the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam will be host to the prestigious IGPOTY, an international garden, plant and flower photography exhibition, showing some of the world’s best images taken outdoors...

Holland’s first Outsider Art Museum, with world-class works of art by national and international outsider artists will be housed in a new space in the Hermitage Amsterdam. The Dolhuys in Haarlem, health care organization Cordaan, and the Hermitage Amsterdam have joined in a unique partne...

Mauritshuis Acquires Rare Floral Still-life by Roelant Savery. The Mauritshuis in the Hague has acquired a masterpiece by the 17th-century painter Roelant Savery (1576 – 1639) for €6.5 million, thanks to the generous support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association and a p...

In october 2015, NBTC Holland Marketing will sign a strategic partnership with Alibaba, in the presence of Holland’s King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, Jack Ma, owner of Alibaba, and Pieter Elbers, CEO of KLM. The objective of the cooperation is to create more brand awareness...

Last year, well over 2.3 million multi-day business trips were undertaken within Holland by Dutch and foreign visitors. These trips yielded well over EUR 2.3 billion. The market for multi-day business trips generates over 55,000 jobs in Holland. NBTC Holland Marketing publishes the results of ...

NBTC Holland Marketing estimates that 14.9 million international tourists visited Holland in 2015. This is a 7% increase compared with 2014. Most of the visitors came from Germany, while China showed the largest growth in terms of percentage, i.e. 21%. NBTC expects an increase in numbers of vi...

Vueling is about to land for the first time at London-Luton, where the airline will offer direct services to Barcelona and Amsterdam during the 2016 summer season. The double daily Barcelona flights will be launched on March 17th, with a total of 110,800 seats on sale during the season....

The guide has been developed by Accessible Travel Netherlands in cooperation with two other Amsterdam based companies; Field Factors and Starbikes Rental. The guide was realized with support from Amsterdam Marketing, Provincie Noord-Holland and Nationale Vereniging de Zonnebloem. In th...

Rotterdam has been acclaimed as the second-ranking convention city in the Netherlands for the sixth year running. The metropolis on the Maas is sharing second place with The Hague this year. Both cities hosted 34 international association conventions in 2013. Rotterdam is 68th on the wo...

According to recent research carried out by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Amsterdam is one of the best developed cities in the world based on ‘the three T’s of economic development: Tolerance, Talent and Technology’. Out of the 61 global cities studied by the instit...

Some people suggest that the list below gives the Top 10 most popular attractions in the Netherlands ! ! Can you agree with this or do you have a better list - based on your own travelexperiences- please comment here.... 1. Red Light District 2. The Mills of Kinderdijk 3. Efteling 4. Th...

Tourists and business visitors to Amsterdam who enjoy creative accommodations can soon look forward to the Faralda NDSM Crane Hotel, located at the top of a former industrial crane in one of the city’s most creative neighbourhoods. Luxury hotel set for iconic location in Amsterdam...

The Nederlands Fotomuseum turns WHITE! From 14 September 2013 to 5 January 2014, the Nederlands Fotomuseum will present the exhibition WHITE | PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, FILM. This exhibition displays existing and new work by national and international talent, by established and prom...

The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam has transferred its collection, which is amongst the three most important ethnolgical photo collections in the Netherlands, to the Nederlands Fotomuseum. The modern air-conditioned depots of the Fotomuseum have the ideal conditions to preserve the photographic obje...

This fall the museum presents six large sculptures and drawings by Adam Colton, in the exhibition Carvings and bones. Adam Colton (Manchester 1957) has been working in the Netherlands since the early eighties. In his earliest drawings and sculptures, he used his own body as a starting object....

The hotel is located in the former water tower of Dordrecht. Villa Augustus has 37 rooms: 20 rooms in the water tower and 17 rooms in the garden. Almost every room has a breathtaking view. - Looking out from the north-west facing windows in the water tower, you can see the Wantij and fo...

The presentation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection is rearranged every two years. This time it has been enriched with more than twenty loans from other Dutch museums and from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Twenty first-rate pieces from elsewhere and more than t...

The annual Keukenhof flower event opens in March, taking due inspiration from Amsterdam 2013. In the 175-year-old Artis Royal Zoo, the exhibition Bloemenzee will explore the history of the zoo as a park in full bloom. March is also the 160th anniversary of the birth of Vincent van Gogh, plus a sp...

In 2013, the 300th anniversary of the Peace Treaty of Utrecht will be celebrated in a grand way. The real festivities will only begin on 11 April 2013, but over the next few years many events will lead up to the celebrations.

Mike Kelley, Switching Marys. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Mike Kelley, Switching Marys. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. From December 15, 2012 the Stedelijk will present Mike Kelley. This retrospective represents Kelley’s artistic output from the 1970s until his untimely d...