Haarlem Discovery Tour: Frans Hals and the Golden Age
195 min
2.3 km
12 stops
About this tour
Amsterdam gets the glory, Haarlem did the work. In the early 1600s this quieter, cleaner city produced Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter Claesz, Judith Leyster and a painter-dynasty of Hals sons who kept the family name on canvases from London to St Petersburg. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
12 guided stops on this route
Frans Hals Museum
Frans Hals spent his last years in this building, then an almshouse for old men. Since 1913 it has been a museum with the world's largest Hals collection. Van…
Vleeshal
Lieven de Key built the Vleeshal in 1602-1603. All meat sold in the town had to pass through it. Pieter Saenredam recorded the building. Today it is De Hallen,…
Anegang
Haarlem had one of Europe's first open art markets: paintings went to the middle class. Hals joined in 1610 and later sat on the board.
Prinsenhof
The Prinsenhof was built in 1449 as a Dominican friary and dissolved in 1578. Today the Guild of St Luke records and documents about Hals himself are kept here.
Stadhuis
The core of the town hall goes back to the thirteenth-century Counts' House. In 1663 the town granted Hals an annual allowance of 200 guilders plus peat. He di…
Grote Markt
Haarlem had two civic guards, St George and St Adrian, and both commissioned Hals. The Meagre Company in Amsterdam was left unfinished and completed by Pieter…
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GPS-guided walking route
Interactive quizzes at each stop
Fascinating stories and facts
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