At the bar in the town’s inn, a refugee by the name of Tesfalem falls under the spell of the innkeeper, […]

Leeuwarden, August 1795 Radical revolutionaries storm the Grote Kerk, smash everything, take valuable metals from the graves and kick around […]

In around 1781, Hermannus Berkenbijl sailed from Leeuwarden to Mantgum every week for three years to work on the carvings […]

In 1678, Anna Maria van Schurman died at the age of seventy in Wiuwert. She was buried in the Nicolaaskerk. […]

Shouting in the port: ‘There they are!’ Women waving towels high above their heads and the shrill sound of the […]

Sunday morning: put on the Sunday clothes, comb your hair and head to church. The comb of the cloisters is […]

Lovers for 400 years. A bell has been hanging in the Koepelkerk in Berlikum since 1593. In 1663, it was […]

What did the Duke of Bavaria do in Sandfirden? Who was in the sarcophagus that was found? And why was […]

A vocal trilogy On a Sunday morning in 1842, the preacher Vitalis was at the pulpit in the Sint Vituskerk […]

Is love stronger than water? The fluyt, a commercial sailing ship, is journeying towards Riga. Second mate Wiebe Aukesz is […]

The church in Rijperkerk is suddenly full again. A case of acute godliness? No, a story is circulating about a […]

She just suddenly appeared, the girl from the bell. The villagers are no longer surprised by this. She likes to […]

One day in 1574, skipper Hendrik Spruyt arrived with his wife Trijntje Jans at their home port of Workum. They […]

It was a child from the nearby primary school who pointed out to the vicar of the Agneskerk the symbol […]

An artistic walk leads the visitor through a vast landscape and a small village, Eestrum. This village has a jewel […]

The Lemster Tower has seen Lemmer change over 300 years; the fishing community became a recreational hotspot. Under it is […]

Homer’s Odyssey in the heart of Friesland The homecoming of war hero Oeds (Odysseus) is played out under the towers […]

Een nacht in de Sint Janskerk (A night at the St. John’s Church) is a whirlwind of a music-theatre performance. […]

In 2018, Tytsjerk opens its doors for unknown visitors who will leave an indelible impression in and together with the […]

The story goes that two horses once died in the small church in Nijeberkoop. The horses had gotten loose and, […]

One of the Netherlands’ greatest poets, Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936), came from Leeuwarden. His work has been translated in 26 […]

A performance about the importance of having a beacon in our lives. Klaas has seen much of the world. This […]

A helmet has hung in the porch of the Schettens church since time immemorial, just an old helmet. Until a […]

Once lonely in the field, nowadays sandwiched between railroad tracks and a dual carriageway, the Kapelle van Haskerdijken is still […]

A roaring sea. Raging sea monsters bash the embankments and storm into the city. They furiously drag children into the […]

In Lûd fan the Middelsee, 17 music associations bring the old Middelzee to life. The Middelzee: new territory of the […]

The pilgrims from the Stellingwerven, whose homecoming was celebrated in 1579 after they walked to Santiago de Compostela, got a […]

A performance about the determination of a carpenter’s assistant with a brilliant plan. Will Lytse Fedde get an audience with […]

The current Mariakerk was built without a tower in 1797. In 1896 the church board decided to have a tower […]

On 17 January 1586, the Spanish army encountered the Frisian army near the village of Boksum. Unfortunately it was not […]

In the spirit of Saint Martin, the Sint Martinuskerk shares its earthly possessions with the youth club, the breeding ground […]