Leyden - Breestraat
From Ars Aemula Naturae, Diefsteeg leads to Breestraat, Leiden's principal shopping street, which with its continuations Noordeinde to the west and Hogewoerd to the east traverses the town in a wide S- shaped curve. It is lined with handsome gabled houses in Dutch Renaissance and Baroque style.
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Rijnlandshuis
At Breestraat 59 is the Rijnlandshuis (Gemeenlandshuis van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland), headquarters of the Rhineland Dike Administration. The original building of around 1600 was much altered in later centuries. Its most notable feature is the Courtroom by Pieter Post (second half of 17th C.), with painted timber barrel-vaulting.
Walloon Church
Opposite the Rijnlandshuis is the Municipal Concert Hall (Stadsgehoorzaal) of Leyden and the Waalse Kerk (Walloon Church; No. 64), which was formerly the chapel of St Catherine's Hospital. Originally Late-Gothic, it was enlarged in 1634, and in 1739 was given a new facade with a Baroque tower. To the right can be seen part of the old hospital.
