Delft Stadhuis

It is a symmetrical building from the year1620. Delf center has about 600 historical buildings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in the old canal Oude Delft. Delf's name comes from "dig"-dig the old-channel "Oude". In 1602 Delf was a thriving city. At that time it established the East India Company so painting flourished (Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675) as well as crafts and science (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723) and the inventor of the microscope, see the geographer and astrologer of Vermeer.