Old City Hall (The Hague)

The Old City Hall in The Hague is a Renaissance-style building on the Groenmarkt near the Grote Kerk.

Other families do this at the current city hall located in the large white building on the Kalvermarkt, near the public library.

[1] The building was considered very large and imposing in its day; just after it was built in 1566 Lodovico Guicciardini referred to The Hague as the most beautiful, richest, and biggest village of Europe.

[citation needed] That The Hague was thus vulnerable to attack makes it all the more amazing that the old city hall survived the Protestant Revolution without damage to older ornaments and windows.

[2] A number of paintings and objects from The Hague's artists of the Confrerie Pictura are found inside the building.