Stadhuis
Neoclassical city hall on a canal, with medieval cellars and a playful late-twentieth-century wing.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Stadhuis in Utrecht looks at the city hall as a physical object: a neoclassical stone front from the eighteen-twenties and the much older houses it was built over. You'll meet the city architect Johannes van Embden, the medieval houses Lichtenberg and Hasenberg, and the Spanish architect Enric Miralles, who reworked the building at the end of the twentieth century. Best heard from the Stadhuisbrug, facing the columns across the canal.
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