Scheveningen is a district of $the Hague, city of the Netherlands, on the edges of the the North Sea. It is a Seaside resort modern with long a sandy Plage and a Jetée of Loisir S. Its port is used for the fishing, the pleasure sailing England -->.

History

• Battle of Scheveningen

Events/Attractions

• polar Bath the New Year's Day;
• the day of the flag to the Spring when the first catch of Hareng S is put at the biddings.
• Fires of artifices in summer: once per week and several days during the week of the festival
• the Red Bull Knock-out is a race of motor bike organized on the beach of Scheveningen in autumn.

A visit with Scheveningen can include:

• the museum of the sea
• the Thrown of Scheveningen and its base of Jump to the rubber band with the top of the sea
• the museum Beelden year Zee (sculptures) and sculptures (free) located between the museum and the sea
• the Panorama Mesdag.
• Madurodam (amusement park)
• the Circustheatre , a theater

Sports

• Following the invitation of the Netherlands in 1892, 15 delegated European countries meet in Scheveningen to lay down the rules of the sports of Figure skating and Speed skating.
• the RESULTING (international skating union or International union of ice-skating in French) is thus created.

• De Uithof is the site of a great sporting center, including two skating rinks, a ski slope, a center of climbing and more.

Born in Scheveningen

• Jean Pierre Rawie it (April 20th 1951)

Trivia

• the name Scheveningen was used like word of code during the Second world war in order to identify the German spies: the German S pronounced the initial “sch differently” Dutch.

• With the failures, the Scheveningen is a variation of opening of play known under the name of sicilian Défense, played for the first time in a Tournoi with Scheveningen .

• See Sicilian Scheveningue

• Scheveningen is also quoted in the song My Father Said , written in interpreted in 1967 by Jacques Brel.

• has Scheveningen , the penitentiary District of the the United Nations shelters the prisoners of the International penal court (CPI) and of the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPI there).

Internal bonds

• the Netherlands
• $the Hague

External bonds

• www.denhaag.nl
• www.denhaag.org
• www.denhaag.com
• www.scheveningen.nl
• www.deuithof.nl
• Official Madurodam website