The main railway station of Haarlem. Its name is simply Station Haarlem. The station, in use since 1842, is one of the oldest in the country. The original station building did not survive, it was replaced by a new building in Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the 20th century. This building opened in 1908 and is still in use today.
The photo shows the inside of the station, with platforms, rails and train shed.
Yesterday I showed you a photo from the exterior of the St Bavo Church. Today I have one of the interior. I took this photo through the choir screen in the direction of the organ.
The church organ you can see on the background was built in the 1730s, by the famous German organ builder Christiaan Müller. At the time, it was the largest church organ in the world. Many famous organists played on it, including Mozart (at the age of ten), Mendelssohn and Händel. It is also the organ that Herman Melville mentioned in Moby Dick, when he talked about the inside of the mouth of a whale: Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?
The St Bavo Church in Haarlem, as seen from the south. The church was built in the 14th and 15th century. The annexes you see on the photo are probably much newer, though.
The Nieuwe Gracht canal in Haarlem, Holland, with on its bank the former catholic elementary school Damiate.
It was a cold winter day, but I think the cold was not the main reason this statue was dressed in warm clothes. Maybe carnival had something to do with it - the photo is from last Saturday, on the eve of carnival.
I took this photo in Haarlem, near the Spaarne river, against a backdrop of two stepped gables across the river.
At first sight, the houses look like canal houses in Amsterdam. I actually took this photo in Haarlem, a city near Amsterdam. The water on the foreground is the water of the river Spaarne.
