Last images from my evening bike ride out along the canals, lakes and waterways of far western Noord Brabant and a wee slice of easternmost Zeeland, while visiting Bergen op Zoom back in May.
Above you’ll see the one of the most impressive and oldest original items in this semi-royal residence museum which I’ve only shown you once before even though the visit was in late May. I’m posting just about every remaining photo from my visit to the Markiezenhof now, since I have plenty of other photos for this series and currently reside and work in a nation where royal palaces are much easier to find than mountains. Strike that: in which anything one could reasonably describe as a mountain does not in fact exist, but people considered royal and thus their residences and such are generally rather plentiful. In the gallery below you’ll see some explanations of the displays including the altar above, if you’re interested. And at the bottom is the entrance to the whole compound: apparently my trip happened on day when some commercial company had rented the entry for an event or party of some sort or other, thus the folks with drinks in hand crowding the entrance.
Goodness me, it would appear that I’ve not yet shown you any views of the lovely “Markiezenhof” or “Marquis’s Home,” the museum / formerly – sometime – royal – related historical museum and structure which spurred my bike and train adventure down to Bergen Op Zoom, Vlissingen, Middelburg, and so on. Between this and my visit at long last to the Muidersloot, I’ve concluded that most palace – castle type items in NL (at least those that are now open to the general public as museums) must have a superlative in their self-description. This one says it’s the oldest (maybe also best maintained?) city palace in … all of Europe was the claim, if I recall well. During the Napoleonic wars, this area was a very important prize for the French, so the museum has lots of maps and stories from that time, when it would appear at least Napoleon’s brother and maybe the man himself visited this very building.
(so much world, so little time....) 