Mayor Jan van Zanen

Mayor Jan van Zanen on The Hague as an international city

"Did you hear that? Jan van Zanen, just finishing the photo opportunity on the Turfmarkt, in The Hague, makes his way through the crowd on his way to City Hall."In that short stretch we just walked, I already heard four different languages. Nice for the...

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amare The Hague culture BOIDR

Amare too high-threshold for the ordinary Hagenees? "Absolutely not"

It took some getting used to when the name of the new Hague cultural building was finally announced in October 2019: Amare. One of the ideas behind it - that it is a reference to the sea (mare) on which The Hague so gracefully lies - sounds a bit...

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Amare The Hague

Amare, a cultural house seven football pitches in size

Leontien Wiering, business director of Amare, poses for the photographer at the barre (the beam on which ballet dancers do their exercises) in a giant dance studio overlooking the Nieuwe Kerk on the Spui. The long half of the space is just window, there...

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