Four rows of lime trees line a shell sand walk, with brick and cream mansions on both sides.
What Lange Voorhout looks like
Four rows of lime trees run the length of the avenue, with a walk of shell sand down the middle between them. The houses on either side are mostly 18th-century mansions, and later fronts are built in the same style. Brick and cream render sit side by side on the same blocks, and many of the fronts are national monuments.
Most of the fronts rise three or four storeys, and several have a grey stone ground floor. Wrought-iron balconies and green and white striped awnings appear on a number of them.
A listed stone pump stands on the brick paving opposite No. 33. The theatre at No. 5 has a pale front, with a blue sunburst in the gable above its windows.
at No. 15 is still an art institution, and at No. 5 is a working theatre. The at No. 2 is a brick church at the west end of the avenue.
takes Nos. 54 to 56, and the stands at No. 28. The palace at No. 74 now holds the museum.
In autumn the leaves turn yellow over the walk. In winter the trees are bare, and the walk can be under snow.
Shot in Lange Voorhout
The Pulchri Studio building appears at length in the 1989 film Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium. In the film the building is a museum, where Theo and Thea act out the Snow White fairy tale.
Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium, 1989
Pulchri Studio
Played a museum
The film was partly shot in The Hague. Its museum scenes were filmed at this building.
What Lange Voorhout can double for
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
Three sides of the square are lined with Georgian redbrick townhouses around a central garden, close to the brick and cornice scale of the avenue's mansions. The houses date from the same decades as the mansions here. The garden railings are the first thing a wide shot picks up, so frame the houses on one side and keep the railings out of shot. Try searching georgian redbrick townhouses now.
The Herengracht canal houses are large townhouses of a comparable scale, built from the early 1600s. A tight frame on the street side can hold the house fronts in the period the avenue plays. The water is the giveaway, so shoot the house fronts from the street side and keep the canal out of frame. Try searching canal houses now.
