Great or Jacobin Church

Waalse Kerk

De Brol

Brugwachterswoning

Zuupsteeg

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Carve a slice of Dutch history at the completely unique Friesian Ice Skating Museum, and see the largest collection of ice skates in the world, alongside a huge collection of amazing archival material, artworks, dioramas, and more amazing special exhibitions that illustrate the Netherlands' rich and storied connection to ice skating.

You can also follow a Hindeloopen painting workshop by a real Hindeloopen painter, and buy authentic paintings in the museum shop. There's also a pretty impressive collection of hand-painted clogs to keep an eye out for!

After your visit, what better way to relax and soak up that timeless Friesian atmosphere than with a cup of coffee, lunch, or a delicious pancake on the sun terrace at one of the many charming canals of Hindeloopen?

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The magic behind the quintessential Dutch canals lies in some serious civil engineering. 

Over centuries, the Dutch have nearly perfected their water management system, and you can learn all about it with tickets to **Afsluitdijk Wadden Center,** situated on the **UNESCO World Hertiage Site** of **Wadden Sea**. 

Learn how **water management** will become an essential skill as sea levels continue to rise during climate change, and plausible to solutions for the future.

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The nightly spirits of Leeuwarden tour shows a new perspective of the dark side of Leeuwarden. With stories about the supernatural at Keunstwork to ghosts living in the city center. Having different themes on the tour, it gives you a unique experience. 

Your tour will start at the old military hospital, where you will listen to the ghost of the soldier talking about paranormal activity in this building. Then you will visit Bredeplaats, where you will learn the story of the Witch House.

You will continue your tour at the Zuupsteeg. Zuupsteeg can be translated into drowning alley or drunk alley. Both translations might be true because there are plenty of drownings that happened to possibly drunk men wandering about in this alley during the early days.

Your tour will end after listening about the Cursed Mill. It is one of the many bakeries in Leeuwarden but with its unique ghost story. 

The nightly spirits come to life during this tour and will give you a new view of the ins and outs of the city. After this tour, you will never walk through Leeuwarden the same way again!

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