Family Audio Tour City of Discoveries
 You start the tour at the Tourist Information Office (VVV) and listen to 11 audio clips along the way. Looking at the route on your phone? You'll find a map with the route in the bottom right corner.
Locations on this route
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Family Audiotour Starting point: Tourist Office
Stationsweg 26
Leiden
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Listen to the audio story.
Then walk across the Rijnsburgerbrug bridge and you'll see the Wereldmuseum on your right. That's your next stop.
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Family Audio Tour Wereldmuseum Leiden
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Wereldmuseum Leiden
This is the Wereldmuseum Leiden. Take a closer look, what a remarkable building! It used to be a hospital, where patients were cared for.
Now it's a museum where you can discover the cultures of the world, from the Arctic to China and from South America to Oceania.
To continue your route, walk around the museum through the garden. Then you'll arrive at the next stop, the Morspoort.
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Family Audio Tour Morspoort
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Morspoort
This is the Morspoort, one of Leiden's old city gates. Did you know there used to be eight city gates? Now there are only two left: the Morspoort and the Zijlpoort. This Morspoort has been here for over 350 years.
See the cannon? Time to take a nice photo together.
Ready? Walk along the water around Hotel d'Oude Morsch to Park de Put. There you can listen to the following audio story.
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Family Audio Tour Molen de Put
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Molen de Put
Listen to the audio story.
Then continue along Weddesteeg, cross the street, and turn left onto Noordeinde. Turn right at Oude Varkenmarkt until you see the Doelenpoort gate on Groenhazengracht. That's your next stop.
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Family Audio Tour Doelenpoort
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Doelenpoort
Here you are standing next to the Doelenpoort gate. The entrance to the Sint Joris and Sebastiaansdoelen. This was the training ground of Leiden's two "schutterijen" (military groups). A group of armed citizens, a kind of police force, really. At the top of the gate, you can see Joris bravely slaying the dragon.
On the corner is a bakery selling all kinds of goodies, and the pink house is definitely worth a photo.
Turn left via Groenhazengracht onto Rapenburg. That's your next stop.
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Family Audio Tour Rapenburg
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Rapenburg
Listen to the story.
Walk right along Rapenburg until you reach the Academy Building. You'll recognize this building by its tall tower.
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Family Audio Tour Academiegebouw
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Academiegebouw
Listen to the audio story.
Then walk through the gate and under the tunnel.
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Family Audio Tour Hortus botanicus Leiden
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Hortus botanicus Leiden
Listen to the audio story.
Then walk back to Rapenburg and cross the Nonnenbrug through Kloksteeg until you reach Pieterskerkhof.
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Family Audio Tour Pieterskerkhof
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Pieterskerkhof
Listen to the audio fragment.
Then walk around the church to Pieterskerkchoorsteeg. Enter this alley and listen to the next fragment at the intersection of Pieterskerkchoorsteeg and Langebrug. There you'll hear the next story.
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Family Audio Tour Pieterskerk-Choorsteeg
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Pieterskerk-Choorsteeg
Listen to the audio story.
Choose a trip to the Young Rembrandt Studio (a 1-minute walk) or continue your route through Pieterskerkchoorsteeg. Cross Breestraat to Marsmansteeg. At the end, you'll reach the Vismarkt. Listen to the following story there.
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Family Audio Tour Vismarkt
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Vismarkt
Listen to the audio story.
Then walk to the covered bridge on the right; that's your next stop.
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Family Audio Tour Koornbrug
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Koornbrug
As you can see, many places here are named after goods that used to be traded on the Leiden market. Nearby, you'll find a Butter Market, a Fish Market, a Mustard Alley (yes, really!), and a Karnemelksbrug (Buttermilk Bridge).
Walk via the Koornbrug bridge through the Burgsteeg and turn left through the gate towards the Castle.
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Family Audio Tour Burcht
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Burcht
Listen to the audio story.
Continue your route through the alley to Oude Rijn, where you turn left again. At the end, walk across Sint Jansburg into Donkersteeg. You'll arrive at Haarlemmerstraat. Turn left and then immediately right again onto Lange Mare. At Vrouwenkerkkoorstraat, turn left towards Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
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Family Audio Tour Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Discover even more science at this museum. You're standing at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. You might be thinking, what a strange name? This museum is named after Hermann Boerhaave, who used to work as a doctor in Leiden. He used herbs and plants from the Hortus Botanicus Leiden to make medicines. He was the first professor to visit people in their homes instead of having them come to him. He brought his students along to learn about medicine.
Visit this museum to learn more about medical science, mathematics, or the history of physics.
Walk past the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, passing Klooster, and continue along Lange Lijsbethsteeg until you reach the Lijsbeth Bridge on Oude Vest. On the bridge, listen to the following audio story.
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Family Audio Tour Lijstbethbrug
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Lijstbethbrug
Listen to the audio story.
Continue walking to the Valk Windmill Museum via Lange Scheistraat, to the right of the museum.
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Family Audio Tour Molen de Valk
LeidenFamily Audio Tour Molen de Valk
Listen to the audio story.
This is the last stop. Walk back to the tourist office via the Kiekpad and turn right at the Rijnsburgerbrug bridge. There you can listen to the final audio story.
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Family Audio Tour VVV end point
Leiden
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Listen to the latest audio story. Thank you for joining us on this audio tour of Leiden, the City of Discoveries.
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