A dune boulevard with a domed grand hotel and a pier over the sea, and the Kurhaus terrace VI Oranje broadcast from during the World Cup.
What Scheveningen looks like
A broad boulevard runs along the top of the dune, the beach open below it on one side and a run of hotels and apartment buildings on the other. Wooden groynes break the sand into sections at intervals along the shore. The Kurhaus stands at the boulevard's centre, a domed brick and sandstone hotel from the 1880s with arched windows filling the upper floor of its rotunda. Steel pilings carry the pier straight out behind it, the deck ending in a round, glass walled level over the water.
, a few streets north, is lined with curved apartment towers seven to twenty storeys high, their glazed bay windows stacked in columns down the fronts. A glass fronted multiplex cinema sits at the boulevard's bend toward the dunes, its curved roofline catching the evening light.
South of the Kurhaus, keeps the older fishing quarter's scale, three and four storey houses in red brick with white trim, stepped gables and wooden balconies running the length of their fronts. A narrow lane called Ankerstraat cuts between two of them toward the harbour on Vissershavenweg, where the fishing fleet still ties up behind the dunes.
Shot in Scheveningen
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje), the 1977 film, used the entrance to on Pompstationsweg for the scene of Erik's arrest, where a German army truck delivers him after a raid on a tennis club. The television talk show VI Oranje broadcast live from the Kurhaus's own terrace during the 2010 World Cup, the 2012 European Championship and the 2014 World Cup, with the beach and the pier behind the panel.
VI Oranje, 2010 to 2014
VI Oranje set its panel up on the hotel's own seaward terrace for live broadcasts during three tournaments. The presenters sat outdoors with the beach and the pier behind them while they discussed that night's match. Street View
What Scheveningen can double for
The Zeedijk in Ostend, Belgium
The Zeedijk mixes Belle Epoque hotel facades with modern high rise apartment towers along a dune top boulevard, the same combination that lines Scheveningen's own seafront. A working fishing harbour sits close behind the seafront on both coasts. Ostend's apartment towers run taller and more uniform in a wide shot, and French and Flemish shopfront signage would need covering. Try searching dune boulevard hotel towers now.
The North Shore in Blackpool, England
The North Shore's long promenade runs above an open beach with a pier reaching out over the water, a similar silhouette to Scheveningen's own boulevard and pier from a distance. Blackpool's ironwork pier and Victorian seafront terraces look British rather than Dutch in a tight shot, so only the long promenade line works at a distance. Try searching promenade above an open beach now.
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