Holiday Day 5
Jul. 3rd, 2011 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaquiljallToday, because the weather wasn't particularly great (although it did stay dry), we spent the afternoon in the town of Franeker in Friesland province. The town has lots of old buildings, many dating back to the seventeenth century or older.
The town is best known for the Planetarium (site in Dutch - but the pictures are worth looking at!), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This was built between 1774 and 1781 by a local wool carder and is huge model of the solar system that still works accurately today to track the movements of the planets, moon phases, sunrise and sunset and a host of other astronomical and astrological elements. The largely wooden mechanism is quite amazing to look at, and the public face of the orrery - the whole ceiling of the downstairs room in this small house - is beautiful.
Among the other fascinating buildings in this small town are a splendid town hall, with stepped gables surrounding a tower and cupola, and the rather more modest Korendragershuisje (site in Dutch), built for a local guild of corn merchants in 1634:
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The town is best known for the Planetarium (site in Dutch - but the pictures are worth looking at!), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This was built between 1774 and 1781 by a local wool carder and is huge model of the solar system that still works accurately today to track the movements of the planets, moon phases, sunrise and sunset and a host of other astronomical and astrological elements. The largely wooden mechanism is quite amazing to look at, and the public face of the orrery - the whole ceiling of the downstairs room in this small house - is beautiful.
Among the other fascinating buildings in this small town are a splendid town hall, with stepped gables surrounding a tower and cupola, and the rather more modest Korendragershuisje (site in Dutch), built for a local guild of corn merchants in 1634:
Click here for more photos from Franeker
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