Paushuize
Renaissance city palace with a stepped gable, built for a future pope who never lived in it.
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This guide to Paushuize in Utrecht follows a house built in the early fifteen hundreds for a churchman serving far away in Spain, who later became the only Dutch pope. It moves on to the Napoleonic years, when the building was an inn and a new King of Holland and his queen Hortense passed through. Along the way you'll hear about a cellar staircase that ends at a closed wall. Best heard from the canal side of Kromme Nieuwegracht, facing the stepped gable.
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