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City hall of Gouda

The town hall of Gouda is on the market . The fifteenth-century town hall is one of the oldest Gothic city halls of the Netherlands .In 1365 the city of Gouda bought the marktveld of Mr Van der Goude to put a city hall building. Yet it would take until 1448 before the construction began. According to city historian Ignatius Walvis was the poor financial position of the city causing the constant postponement. The new town hall was to replace the old, according Whale to Gouwe , at the site of the later brewing the Swan has been.Others situate However, the precursor  of the town hall just east of the former police station on the market, with possibly a pastor in a hall at the southern tip of the market

Great or St. John's Church

The Great or St. John Church in Gouda is a large cruciform church in Gothic style. The church is famous mainly for its range of stained glass . The church itself is typical roofing and is the longest church in the Netherlands with 123 meters, outside wheels. Essentially the church dates from the 15th and 16th centuries , but the history of the building goes back further.The St. John's Church is dedicated to John the Baptist , the patron saint of Gouda. The symbolic colors of the saint, red and white in the coat of arms found. The church is among the top 100 of the Dutch UNESCO monuments .

Golden Church

The Gouwe Church is a neo-Gothic cruciform church in the Dutch city of Gouda . The church is located on the High Gouwe in Gouda and dates from the early twentieth century.Gouwe the church is a cruciform church , built of red brick . At the junction of the roof is a hexagonal, partly openwork spire. This crossing tower is from the surrounding area to see and with a height of about 80 meters the highest point of the city.

Lazarus Gate

The Lazarus's Gate in 1609, probably by the Gouda city sculptor Gregory Cool , created as a gateway to the former leper colony on the Gouwe in the Dutch city of Gouda .Initially, the leper colony was located outside the gate of Gouda in the Potter Wachtelstraat. In 1579, the former St. Mary Convent at Gouwe, within the city walls, for the reception of lepers.In 1609 it was made at the Rotterdam gate latch (since 1960 called Water Nuns), that provided access to the leper colony located behind the Gouwe.

Resistance Ontario

The Resistance Museum Ontario was initiated by the Committee established Gouda May 5 at 20 March 1985 . The museum is in the center of Gouda , a former bank building at the Peat. The building was in 1937 designed in the style of the Amsterdam School .In the museum is the history of the Resistance during the Second World War central. In the courtyard of the museum are only replicas of Dutch resistance sites

National Pharmaceutical Museum

The national pharmaceutical museum, formerly known as The Museum Moriaan, at Gouda is part of museumgoudA .In December 2007 the museum reopened its doors after an extensive renovation. The national pharmaceutical museum traces the history of the drug seen from the 16th century to the present. The aim of the museum is the history of pharmacy museum for a wide audience and to show the development of drug exposure. The museum is an initiative of a number of pharmacists working closely with museumgoudA and the Royal Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy . The medicinal garden at the rear of the museum are medicinal plants. The garden is open to the public.

Museumhaven Gouda

The Museum is a Gouda Harbour berth for ships in the historic city of Gouda . There are both ships of the fleet brown , with commercial shipping vessels can be chartered, and other historic ships . 'Brown fleet', because such vessels generally feed with brown sails and sail. Many of these type of vessels were suitable for navigation on the Zuiderzee , now IJsselmeer and Wadden Sea and even the coastal shipping . In no other country in the world are so many different types of ships built in the Netherlands. This was largely determined by the character of the fairway on the spot. The ships in the museum come from all parts of the country.

De Roode Leeuw

De Roode Leeuw is a circular stone mill on the jacket of Gouda , which-after the restoration in the eighties of the 20th century - back to 2007 served as a corn mill .De Roode Leeuw are two wind-driven,electric couples millstones . In 2007 the mill to grind still put until a major restoration.The mill is Wednesday,Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. hour visit. Also sale of flour at the mill.
 

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