"Oude Muziek Utrecht" is a 10-day programme featuring music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque period, the Classical and Early-Romantic...
The Pluk de Nacht film festival features the best of the international arthouse films which don't normally get distributed in Holland introducing festival...
This cultural festival began in Amsterdam in 2004 and is now an annual event. Each day new bands and artists perform on stage and there are theatre shows...
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Theatre & Film
, Kids' Stuff
, Music
, Food & Drink
The Dam tot Damloop Run (central square to central square) is the biggest event of its kind in the Netherlands, with runners leaving the centre of Amsterdam...
Gaudeamus Music Week is a competition for classical composers aged up to 30 years of age. An internationally renowned panel of judges selects the compositions...
Over one September weekend each year, the streets by the Westkerk church in the artisan's quarter of Jordaan are transformed into an open-air party venue...
Amsterdam is famous for the monumental character of its city centre, thanks in large part to the numerous 17th- and 18th-century canalside houses that...
This popular sporting event has been held every year since 1975 and draws bigger crowds year on year. Nearly 200,000 spectators crowd the streets and...
This event, which takes place over nine days and attracts more than 40,000 visitors each year, allows the general public to visit exhibitions, attend...
Some 12,500 participants and 150,000 spectators are expected to take part in what is billed as the greatest annual one-day sporting event in Eindhoven....
This annual salsa event, which takes place in the beautiful city of Haarlem, is the biggest of its kind in the Netherlands. Salsa dancers from all over...
Each year, the people of Leiden celebrate the anniversary of the liberation of their city from the Spanish in 1574. The celebrations (known as "Leidens...
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Entertainment
, Music
, Food & Drink
, Spectacle
, Culture
, History
Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas in Dutch) arrives in Amsterdam by boat (from Spain, and why not?) to the canal across from Saint Nicholas Church (Sint Nikolaaskerk)....
The annual International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) screens a programme of documentaries that rise above the ordinary. Dedicated to innovative...
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Entertainment
, Theatre & Film
, Spectacle
Gouda by Candle Light (Gouda bij Kaarslicht) is a delightfully evocative and seasonal evening in which all electric lights are extinguished and the historic...
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Kids' Stuff
, Music
, Spectacle
, Religion
New Year's Eve is celebrated all over The Netherlands with jovial celebrations, private parties, public events and fireworks displays. Amsterdam is as...
Scheveningen, the seaside district of The Hague, is a resort formerly noted for the curative quality of its air and its waters. These days it is better...
This is a major festival, attracting top names from the film world as well as thousands of film buffs. Rotterdam offers a quality selection of worldwide...
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Spectacle
, Entertainment
, Theatre & Film
This three-day equestrian event attracts the best horse riders in the world and more than 50,000 people besides, to the concours hippique at the RAI Centre....
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Kids' Stuff
, Entertainment
, Food & Drink
, Spectacle
, Sport
Maastricht holds the biggest of the Dutch carnivals, a three-day party that's extended to a full week by some seasoned revellers. The show starts for...
The s-Hertogenbosch Carnival or "festival of fools" is celebrated at carnival time in many towns in the Netherlands, especially in the southern provinces...
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Entertainment
, Spectacle
, Kids' Stuff
, Music
About 700,000 people visit Keukenhof Gardens each spring to admire the tulips and other bulb flowers in full bloom. This incredible display of colour...
Amsterdam is sometimes called the 'Miracle City', and one particular miracle is remembered each year with a special mass and an historic procession. According...
Thrillers, science fiction, horror and cult movies are the mainstay of the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, and has been terrifying audiences since...
The 'Bloemencorso van de Bollenstreek' is a parade of flower-decorated floats that makes a slow 40km (25 miles) passage from Noordwijk to Haarlem, where...
Amsterdam is well blessed with museums, with many of them being grouped around the Museumplein on the south side of the centre. Museums here, and in the...
Up to a million people take to the streets of Amsterdam for the annual Queen's Birthday celebrations to join in with the dancing and the fun. Carnival...
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Spectacle
, Kids' Stuff
, Music
, Pop(ular)
, History
, Food & Drink
Launched in 2005, the Amsterdam Literary Festival aims to put the city on the literary map. It features talks by authors together with workshops, a literary...
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Entertainment
, Music
, Spectacle
, Art & Literature
The Aqua Musica Festival on the IJ is a unique experience. Small ensemble music concerts are given on board 50 historic ships at anchor in the Oosterdok,...
Amsterdam's annual June festival includes opera, theatre, music and dance performed at a dozen venues throughout the city. About 90 performances take...
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