Den Haag is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. It is located in the west of the country, in the province of South Holland, of which it is also the provincial capital.

Den Haag is the home of the States-General of the Netherlands. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives and works in Den Haag.

This is a big city. Then, you have to arrive by train in Den Haag Centraal Station

where, if I were you, I would buy a tram ticket for all the day for €7,5.

Den Haag is the largest Dutch city on the North Sea and includes two distinct beach resorts. The main beach resort Scheveningen, in the northwestern part of the city,

is a popular destination for tourists and young people. Then, you have to go to the beach by tram where is full of bars, restaurants and pubs to enjoy, if you are lucky, of a sunny day swimming.

Finishing this, you can go to the centre. City life concentrates around the Hofvijver and the Binnenhof, where the parliament is located. The number and variety of foreign residents makes the city quite culturally diverse, with many foreign pubs, shops and cultural events.

If you want to go shopping, don't worry, it is a big city full of shops, but here, in Den Haag you have to visit different places.

On the one hand, the layout of the city is more spacious than other Dutch cities, and because of the incorporation of large and old nobility estates, the creation of various parks and the use of green zones around natural streams, it is a much more green city than any other in the Netherlands. That is, excepting some mediaeval close-knitted streets in the centre.

On the other hand, the city contributes substantially to international politics: Den Haag is home to over 150 international organizations. These include the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
The foundation of Den Haag as an "international city of peace and justice" was laid in 1899, when the world's first Peace Conference took place in Den Haag on Tobias Asser's initiative, followed by a second in 1907.

Currently, The Hague is the world's second UN city, after New York. In line with the city's history as an important convention center and the current presence of institutions such as the ICJ, Den Haag's city council employs a city branding strategy that aims to establish den Haag as the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice.

But, like always, if you want to see a little bit the city, I put a video from youtube showing this:


And, of course, Google Street View:

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