Procure museus e pinturas

Leida / Países Baixos

Leida, também conhecida em português como Leiden , é uma cidade e comuna neerlandesa localizada na província Holanda do Sul. Com uma população de 121 199 habitantes é a quarta cidade mais populosa da província, depois de Roterdão, Haia e Zoetermeer. A cidade faz parte da conurbação ou área metropolitana de Randstad , que tem cerca de 257 000 habitantes. É a área com a segunda população mais densa do país com cerca de 5400 habitantes por km².O território de Leiden estende-se até os municípios de Leiderdorp ao leste; Teylingen e Oegstgeest ao norte; Katwijk, chegando até a costa pelo noroeste; Wassenaar e Voorschoten ao oeste; Leidschendam-Voorburg e Zoeterwoude ao sul. Leida situa-se a cerca de 20 km ao norte da Haia e a aproximadamente 40 km ao sul de Amsterdam. A cidade, que tem a alcunha "cidade das chaves" por causa do brasão, possui a universidade mais antiga do país. Também teve um papel importante na história holandesa.

Museum De Lakenhal

Leida / Países Baixos

Museum De Lakenhal is a city museum of history and fine art in Leiden, Netherlands. One highlight is its collection of fijnschilder paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. The museum regularly hosts visiting art exhibitions and has a café.

Leiden University Library

Leida / Países Baixos

Leiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment. This was due particularly to the simultaneous presence of a unique collection of exceptional sources and scholars. Holdings include approximately 5,200,000 volumes, 1,000,000 e-books, 70,000 e-journals, 2,000 current paper journals, 60,000 Oriental and Western manuscripts, 500,000 letters, 100,000 maps, 100,000 prints, 12,000 drawings and 300,000 photographs. The library manages the largest collections worldwide on Indonesia and the Caribbean. Furthermore, Leiden University Library is the only heritage organization in The Netherlands with three registrations of documents in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. "Est hic magna commoditas bibliothecae ut studiosi possint studere" —Josephus Justus Scaliger"The greatest advantage of the library is that those who want to study, can study."

Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland

Leida / Países Baixos

The Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland on the Breestraat in Leiden is the oldest Gemeenlandshuis of the Netherlands that kept its function until the current century. Currently, it is still in use by the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, but only for meetings and special occasions. Their day-to-day seat of water management is housed today on the Archimedesweg in Leiden.

Pieterskerk, Leiden

Leida / Países Baixos

The Pieterskerk is a late-Gothic church in Leiden dedicated to Saint Peter. It is known today as the church of the Pilgrim Fathers, where the pastor John Robinson was buried. It is also the burial place of the scientist Willebrord Snellius.