Sunny Leiden

In a beautifully preserved house built around 1375 near the clock tower of the Hooglandsekerk, this tiny museum tells the stories of the founders of New England, the Pilgrims. Furnishings from Pilgrim times it shows aspects of daily life, while the story of the Pilgrims themselves is illustrated with a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century maps and engravings.

The Hooglandse Kerk- high above all other buildings. Don't you ever wonder how they could ever have built buildings like this in earlier days...?

View on the Catholic Holy Heart Church (left) and the Protestant Mare Kerk (named after the canal in front of it) The Mare kerk is build in the 17th century, and was the first church to be built as a protestant church and not as a Catholic church. That's why it is build in a circle and not in a cross. The pulpit is in the middle of the church- so that God's Word would be in the middle of the people, where it belongs.

View on the Hooglandse Kerk out of the Burcht (Ford)