Guidebook for Leiden

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Guidebook for Leiden

Essentials

One of the two small supermarkets in the nearby shopping mall.
C1000 Van Der Burg
55 Diamantplein
One of the two small supermarkets in the nearby shopping mall.
One of the two small supermarkets in the nearby shopping mall.
Dirk van den Broek
71 Diamantplein
One of the two small supermarkets in the nearby shopping mall.

Food Scene

Nice pizzas and fast food. If you go and pick up the pizzas yourself, the second pizza is only 2,50 euro.
Star Food
3 Diamantlaan
Nice pizzas and fast food. If you go and pick up the pizzas yourself, the second pizza is only 2,50 euro.
Nice Italian restaurant, try their pastas.
6 locals recommend
Ristorante Pizzeria Karalis
5 Doezastraat
6 locals recommend
Nice Italian restaurant, try their pastas.
Nice restaurant with an international kitchen. Very interesting decor inside.
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7 Kaiserstraat
Nice restaurant with an international kitchen. Very interesting decor inside.
Try some typical Dutch pannenkoeken (pancakes)
Oudt Leyden
49 Steenstraat
Try some typical Dutch pannenkoeken (pancakes)

Everything Else

Just in case, the pharmacy is within walking (or crawling) distance.
Apotheek Kok
5-A Diamantlaan
Just in case, the pharmacy is within walking (or crawling) distance.
Amazing farm where you can pet and feed all sorts of farm animals. Your kids can even ride the ponies. There's a bar where you can have lunch and home-made cheese and icecream.
15 locals recommend
't Geertje
7 Geerweg
15 locals recommend
Amazing farm where you can pet and feed all sorts of farm animals. Your kids can even ride the ponies. There's a bar where you can have lunch and home-made cheese and icecream.
Nice water-area where you can swim and rent boats, canoes and water-bikes.
12 locals recommend
Vlietland
12 locals recommend
Nice water-area where you can swim and rent boats, canoes and water-bikes.
The beach!
6 locals recommend
Boulevard
6 locals recommend
The beach!

Arts & Culture

National museum of Natural History. Really nice and kid-friendly.The natural history collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center is the 5th largest in the world with 37 million objects.
114 locals recommend
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
2 Darwinweg
114 locals recommend
National museum of Natural History. Really nice and kid-friendly.The natural history collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center is the 5th largest in the world with 37 million objects.
The National Museum of Ethnology is the world's oldest ethnographical museum.
94 locals recommend
National Museum of Ethnology
1 Steenstraat
94 locals recommend
The National Museum of Ethnology is the world's oldest ethnographical museum.
Museum Corpus is a journey through the human body. Quite literally. Very nice, interactive and kid-friendly.
Corpus station
Museum Corpus is a journey through the human body. Quite literally. Very nice, interactive and kid-friendly.
The National Museum of Antiquities is the national center of archaeology where you can appreciate the cultures of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the classical world and the early Netherlands.
77 locals recommend
National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden)
28 Rapenburg
77 locals recommend
The National Museum of Antiquities is the national center of archaeology where you can appreciate the cultures of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the classical world and the early Netherlands.
Museum Boerhaave is a beautiful museum focused on the rich medical history of the Netherlands.
47 locals recommend
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
10 Lange Sint Agnietenstraat
47 locals recommend
Museum Boerhaave is a beautiful museum focused on the rich medical history of the Netherlands.

Sightseeing

This beautiful traditional Dutch windmill is also a museum.
28 locals recommend
Molenmuseum de Valk
1 2e Binnenvestgracht
28 locals recommend
This beautiful traditional Dutch windmill is also a museum.
A smaller windmill, where you can buy traditionally milled flower, when it's open. It's usually open on sunny, slightly windy, Saturdays.
11 locals recommend
Molen de Put
11 Park de Put
11 locals recommend
A smaller windmill, where you can buy traditionally milled flower, when it's open. It's usually open on sunny, slightly windy, Saturdays.
Here you can rent small rowing boats to explore the canals of Leiden. It's an absolute must-do, if it is a sunny day.
Botenverhuur 't Galgewater
Here you can rent small rowing boats to explore the canals of Leiden. It's an absolute must-do, if it is a sunny day.
Beautiful castle tower on a man-made hill, smack in the middle of the center of Leiden. (It's where we got married)
39 locals recommend
Grandcafé De Burcht
14 Burgsteeg
39 locals recommend
Beautiful castle tower on a man-made hill, smack in the middle of the center of Leiden. (It's where we got married)
The world's most beautiful spring garden, the Keukenhof. (open from March 21st to May 20th)
465 locals recommend
Keukenhof
166A Stationsweg
465 locals recommend
The world's most beautiful spring garden, the Keukenhof. (open from March 21st to May 20th)

Shopping

The main shopping street of Leiden.
411 locals recommend
Haarlemmerstraat
Haarlemmerstraat
411 locals recommend
The main shopping street of Leiden.