เสียงบรรยายนำเที่ยว Delft ทัวร์เดินชม

The Delft Gates & Delftware Walk starts beside the Oostpoort, the medieval East Gate with its twin spires and white drawbridge, then cuts south through the leafy campus of TU Delft, past the walled Botanic Garden and the grass roofed university library shaped like a sloping lawn. From there it reaches Royal Delft, the last of the town's seventeenth century potteries still painting blue and white earthenware by hand, before finishing on the harbor basin where Johannes Vermeer painted his famous View of Delft. It's 3 kilometers and about 41 minutes of flat walking.

The Delft Old Town Walk begins at Windmill De Roos on the western edge of the center, a working grain mill with a wooden gallery wrapped around its tower, then follows the Oude Delft canal to the Prinsenhof, the former convent where William of Orange was assassinated in 1584. A few minutes on, the leaning brick tower of the Oude Kerk, nicknamed Oude Jan, marks the resting place of both Vermeer and the microscope pioneer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

From there the Old Town Walk passes the Vermeer Centrum on the site of the old painters' guild hall and opens onto the Markt, where the Nieuwe Kerk's tower rises over the tomb of William of Orange and the burial vault of the House of Orange. The route finishes by way of the leafy Beestenmarkt square, the old Armamentarium arsenal and Delft Station, 2.4 kilometers and about 33 minutes in all.