Map
About Leiden LoopThe Leiden Loop is a city walk around the historic city centre of Leiden. The route is indicated by signposts. At special locations along the route you will find notice boards with information about Leiden’s history.
This mobile website offers audio and video clips with extra information about the different locations.
You can also listen to the histories and watch the video clips at home on
www.deleidseloper.nl.
For more information about Leiden, contact:
Visitor Centre
Stationsweg 41
2312 AT Leiden
T
tel: 071-516 60 00
E-mail: info@vcleiden.nl
Costs
The use of this mobile service is free of charge. To view our website and listen to the histories via your mobile phone, you need a telephone that offers this function and a mobile internet subscription from your telephony provider. Your provider may charge you for the data connection. Please make sure that you are aware of the costs that your provider is likely to charge.
Please note: viewing video clips is not included in the ‘unlimited internet subscription’ of some providers.
Declaration
The information on this website has been compiled by the municipality of Leiden. We make every effort to ensure that the information contained in the website is at all times as up to date, accessible, correct and complete as possible. Nonetheless, if you notice anything that is incorrect or outdated, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by sending an email to: internet@leiden.nl.
Personal information
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Copyright
The information on this site, both the text and image material, is and will remain the property of the municipality of Leiden, unless otherwise indicated. Inclusion of information from the website of the municipality of Leiden in your own publications is permitted only with appropriate reference to the source. The use of information from the website that is not the property of the municipality of Leiden is allowed only with the permission of the owner.
Credits
Initiative and co-ordination: Stichting Open Monumentendagen Leiden / Municipality of Leiden, team Stadsruimte
Audio production: Antenna Audio, on behalf of the Municipality of Leiden
Texts / editorial: Aukje Vergeest, Antenna Audio / Cor Smit, Tiny Klever, Municipality of Leiden
Voices (Dutch): Roos Ouwehand and Edwin de Jongh (citaten)
Voices (English): David Thorpe and Adam White (quotations)
Music: including Two Violins and a Double Bass (www.tweevioleneneenbas.nl), Leo van Doeselaar (www.leovandoeselaar.com) and Theo Visser (www.theovisser.nl)
Film clip ‘Blaeu Digitaal’: Los Digitalos on behalf of the Municipality of Leiden (Unit Monumenten & Archeologie)
Film clip of Beestenmarkt: Leiden Regional Archive / Dirk van Eck Foundation
Animation of gunpowder disaster: Infofilm, Leiden on behalf of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
Website construction: Mobzili (www.mobzili.com)
Photos of locations: Marc de Haan, Francien Durand, Municipality of Leiden
Images: Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden Regional Archive, Municipality of Leiden
English translation: Marilyn Hedges (website text) en John Rudge (location text)