Hofwijck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɔfʋɛik]; or Vitaulium in Latin) is a mansion built for 17th-century politician Constantijn Huygens. It is located in...

bought a piece of land in Voorburg and commissioned the building of Hofwijck. Hofwijck was inaugurated in 1642 in the company of friends and relatives. Here...

himself entirely to research. The family had another house, not far away at Hofwijck, and he spent time there during the summer. Despite being very active,...

collapsed. The Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens felt the earthquake in Hofwijck and recounted: "At half past two in the afternoon, while I was reading...

Dutch style kitchen hearth in Hofwijck mansion, Voorburg, Netherlands...

yard which end at station Den Haag Centraal. Next to the station lies Hofwijck mansion which at present houses a museum of the town history and of its...

Pastel portrait of Christiaan Huygens, located in Hofwijck museum....

121.572857°E / 31.340236; 121.572857, next to another replica of the Hofwijck. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, 's Lands Zeemagazijn...

under the North Sea Canal), and apartment buildings. Even in the case of Hofwijck, whose inhabitants were so notable that the house is a museum today, the...

shares some of the features of the Huygens’s country house in Voorburg, Hofwijck. In 1804, the estate passed on to Baron Willem van Brienen. His son, Baron...