Architecture sights in Haarlem

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   Grote Kerk van St Bavo

   • Haarlem, The Netherlands
   • Sights › Architecture

   The Grote Kerk van St Bavo is a Gothic cathedral with a towering 50m-high steeple. It contains some fine Renaissance artworks, but the star attraction is its stunning Müller organ – one of the most magnificent in the world, standing 30m high with about 5000 pipes. It was played by Handel and Mozart, the latter when he was just 10. Free organ recitals take place at 8.15pm Tuesday and Thursday, May to October.

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   Bakenesserkerk

   • Haarlem, The Netherlands
   • Sights › Architecture

   The striking Bakenesserkerk is a late-15th-century church with a lamp-lit tower of sandstone. The stone was employed here when the Grote Kerk proved too weak to support a heavy steeple – hence the wooden tower of the cathedral we see today. A private firm occupies it but you can still peek inside.

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