Inner Court

The Binnenhof is a complex of buildings in the center of The Hague, which has been the focal point of Dutch and Dutch politics for centuries. Its origins date back to the construction of a castle by the counts of Holland, who held their residence there since the thirteenth century. They were later succeeded in this choice by stadtholders, the States of Holland and West Friesland, and the States-General of the Netherlands, respectively the States-General at the time of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who chose this location because of its status as an administrative center. The Prime Minister, the highest political official of the Netherlands, also has his office here, in the Torentje.

The city of The Hague owes its existence to the Binnenhof, which over the centuries has led to an influx of administrators and workers who settled in the vicinity. The Binnenhof is part of the Top 100 of Dutch monuments and is possibly the oldest parliamentary complex in Europe still in operation, within which the meeting room of the First Chamber, built around 1655 as the meeting room of the States of Holland and West Friesland, can be seen as the oldest currently used parliamentary meeting room.

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