Description
xandra dankloffView of the Lange Voorhout in The Hague, The Netherlands. in springtime. The Lange Voorhout is a street in the old city center of The Hague, The Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, the Lange Voorhout was bordered by several farms. Only in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the Counts of Holland modernised the governance of the county with new administrative divisions, were houses built in this area. The Lange Voorhout and surroundings pre-eminently became the neighbourhood where courtiers and later statesmen came to live.