Currently the Bio Science Park and other high -tech companies in Leeuwenhoek make They read one of the most important cities In both sectors, as well as one of the most educated populations from the Netherlands and a very low unemployment rate.
One of the most important and interesting tourist attractions of Leiden is the historic centerwhich is considered a large outdoor museum as there are constructions of the 16th and 17th centuries in excellent condition such as The City Council (Stadhuis), The house of pesos and measures, the academy building (Academiegebouw) This being the oldest and most emblematic construction of the University of Leiden.
The most important figure in Leiden's story is the famous Baroque painter Rembrandt and from which a series of tourist attractions are released as tours of the spaces where he learned to draw, to sketch and paint, and where he made his first great works. He Young Rembrandt Museum and the Ar Young Rembrandt Walk They are two of the most visited sites and activities.
It seems that Leiden is one of the most artistic cities in the Netherlandsin addition to Rembrandt, since in 1917 the triad of architects and artists made up of Theo Van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian and Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oudthey founded the magazine Of Stijl from which an important artistic movement that influenced art and architecture of the first half of the twentieth century.
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A curious fact is that in the seventeenth century the city government granted 100 refugees English religious permission to settle in Leiden. Subsequently, in 1620 a group of these refugees left for America as pilgrims in the famous ship Mayflower And they founded the Colonia of Plymouth, in what we now know as Massachusetts. With this data, the family history of former presidents of the United States can be traced, Barack Obama, Ulises Grant, Calvin Coolidge, Zachary Taylor, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush.
Definitely, Leiden is part of the history of the European Northwest and has influenced much of the history of mankind. His beautiful architecture, his tireless scientific impetus, his resilience and his wonderful human qualityThey make it a city worth visiting and knowing more thoroughly.