Naar toen

"Naar toen" ("to the past") will take you back in time. Discover and Experience Dutch history.
Take a peek inside the buildings to see what a house or place looked like long ago. With the app, colorful, historical figures will step into view and exciting events will be retrieved from obscurity. The first route "Royal and Aristocratic Life" shows you the how and where of life among the elite of Hague society.

The app contains historical images (paintings, drawings, photographs), video and sound.
The journey into the past follows a network of bicycle markers, the cycle junction network (fietsknooppunten).

Royal and aristocratic life - the culture of the courts in and around verdant The Hague

Who were the occupants of the opulent houses on the Voorhout in The Hague? What was life like behind those ornate facades and on the lush estates in and around the city?
The Hague: home of the aristocracy, "court city" or Hofstad, a town of counts and ladies, and later, of kings and queens. Ever since the 17th century, The Hague's Voorhout was the meeting place of Holland's richest and most powerful people: the noble and the beautiful, immensely wealthy and owners of vast tracts of land.
This route will lead you from the centrally located Voorhout and Vijverberg pond past the site of over forty country places and manors in The Hague, Wassenaar, Voorschoten, Leidschendam, Voorburg and Rijswijk, some of them still extant, others long gone.