Leeuwarden - Town Hall

(Local Name: Stadhuis) Facing the Hof, in Raadhuisplein, is the Town Hall (Stadhuis), a Baroque building erected in 1715 on the foundations of an older house. A new wing was built around 1760. The domed bell-turret over the triangular pediment contains a carillon of 39 bells which rings every Friday between 10 and 11 am. Curiously, the town's coat of arms on the facade wrongly shows the lion with its tail turned inward instead of outward. In front of the Town Hall can be seen a monument to Count Willem Lodewijk of Nassau-Dietz (d. 1620), Stadholder of Friesland.