Utrecht - Mariaplaats

Farther along Zadelstraat is Mariaplaats. In this square is the House of Arts and Sciences (Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen; 1840), with a music school and halls for theatrical performances and lectures, which was burned down in 1988. At the southwest corner of the building is the Romanesque cloister of St Maria, all that remains of a church founded by King Henry IV in the 11th century and demolished in the 19th century. Southwest of Mariaplaats, beyond Catharijnebaan, is a large office block occupied by Netherlands Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen).