Castles & Palaces
Netherlands castle landscape

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Castles in Netherlands

Muiderslot and the water castles of Holland reflect centuries of Dutch ingenuity in defensive architecture.

The Royal Palace of Amsterdam's Dutch Classicist facade on Dam Square

netherlands · North Holland

Royal Palace of Amsterdam

A republic's city hall mistaken for a king's palace — the grandest building of the Dutch Golden Age

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Royal Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn — William and Mary's Dutch Baroque palace with restored formal parterre gardens, the constitutional and dynastic heart of the House of Orange-Nassau

netherlands · Gelderland

Royal Palace Het Loo

William and Mary's palace — the seat of the couple who became joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1689, now restored to its original Baroque glory with the finest formal royal gardens in the Netherlands

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Hoensbroek Castle reflected in its double water moat in South Limburg, Netherlands

netherlands · South Limburg

Hoensbroek Castle

The largest medieval castle in the Netherlands, doubled in a still water moat

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Arcen Castle in Limburg, Netherlands — the 1709 baroque manor shell whose interior was destroyed in 1944, now the centrepiece of the Kasteeltuinen Arcen, one of the Netherlands' most elaborate garden estates

netherlands · Limburg

Arcen Castle

The castle that became a garden — Arcen's baroque manor was gutted by Allied bombing in 1944, and what grew in its place is one of the Netherlands' most elaborate themed garden landscapes, with the roofless shell framing the entrance to 19 hectares of international garden design

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Loevestein Castle at the confluence of the Maas and Waal rivers in Gelderland, Netherlands, seen from the water approach by ferry

netherlands · Gelderland

Loevestein Castle

Hugo Grotius escaped from here in a chest of books — the castle that made international law possible is reachable only by ferry

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Fraeylemaborg in Slochteren, Groningen — the largest surviving borg in Groningen province, a 1770-remodelled manor house on its medieval moated site, surrounded by formal gardens and a landscape park

netherlands · Groningen

Fraeylemaborg

The last great borg of Groningen — Fraeylemaborg is the largest surviving example of the fortified manor houses that Groningen's provincial landed gentry built on the flat agricultural landscape of the Netherlands' far northeast, and it offers the closest thing to an undiscovered Dutch castle in a region most visitors never reach

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Kasteel Helmond rising above its original water-filled moat in the centre of Helmond, North Brabant — one of the Netherlands' best-preserved 14th-century square-plan moated castles

netherlands · North Brabant

Castle Helmond

One of the Netherlands' best-preserved moated castles, now a working art museum — and home to work by Lucas Gassel, a Renaissance painter who documented the landscapes around this very building

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De Haar Castle with its 12 towers reflected in the surrounding moat, Utrecht Province, Netherlands

netherlands · Utrecht Province

De Haar Castle

The largest castle in the Netherlands — a neo-Gothic masterpiece rebuilt for a baron's fairytale

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Fort Sint Pieter on the St Pietersberg hill above Maastricht, Netherlands — the 1701–1702 Dutch Baroque hornwork fortress designed by Isaac van Couhorn, with its network of limestone underground passages carved with three centuries of military inscriptions

netherlands · Limburg

Fort St Pieter

Maastricht's limestone fortress and its secret underground — Fort Sint Pieter was built in 1701 on the St Pietersberg hill with a network of limestone tunnels beneath it, now the most atmospheric 1-hour guided tour in the Netherlands' most historic city

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Muiderslot castle reflected in its moat on a still morning, its four towers perfectly symmetrical

netherlands · North Holland

Muiderslot

The best-preserved medieval castle in the Netherlands — a perfect square fortress reflected in its moat

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Museum Borg Verhildersum in Leens, Groningen — the moated estate house and farm ensemble in the flat clay landscape of the Hogeland

netherlands · Leens, Groningen Province

Castle Verhildersum

A 19th-century Groningen estate seen through the eyes of nobility, farmers and laborers alike

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