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Half Day Private Vermeer Tour of Delft + Vermeer Centrum

By Discover Delft
Free cancellation available
Price is €350 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This tour will literally take you through a Vermeer painting: you will walk through the historical heart of Delft with an enthusiastic guide, whose passion for the city is infectious. Visit the places that played the biggest role in Vermeer's life and walk in his footsteps. From the place where he was born, to the place where he lived and the place where he has been buried; you will see it all.

In Delft, everything comes together: you will also get to know the Father of the Fatherland, the Dutchman who discovered microbes (and knew Vermeer), and the founding father of international law. All while walking along the canals of the quaintest city of Holland.

You won't look at Vermeer's work in the same way again. Expect to hear interesting stories and to get real insider tips. You will see and understand things that would otherwise go unnoticed.

This tour takes 4 to 5 hours and it starts and ends in the city centre. It can be booked in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian or French.

Activity location

  • Markt
    • Markt
    • Delft, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hugo Grotius Statue
    • Markt
    • 2611 GW, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Check availability

Dutch
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • Dutch

Pickup included

Language options: Dutch
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00
English
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00
French
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • French

Pickup included

Language options: French
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00
German
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • German

Pickup included

Language options: German
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00
Italian
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • Italian

Pickup included

Language options: Italian
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00
Spanish
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • Spanish

Pickup included

Language options: Spanish
Price details
€350.00 x 1 Adult€350.00
Total
Price is €350.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance ticket to Old Church (valid for New Church too)
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance ticket to Vermeer Museum (with audio guide)
  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate guide: In-person: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge (optional)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedUmbrella (hope you don't need it!)

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Markt
  • 20m
Your tour starts on the Markt square of Delft. This is where most of Vermeer's life has happened. There are many things to see here: The New Church, Hugo Grotius' statue, Vermeer's father's old house, Vermeer's later own house, the town hall, the oldest shop of Delft, the butter house, the weighing house and more! Your guide will tell you all about it.
Old Church
  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
After the Markt square, we will make our way towards the Old Church. Next to many other famous Dutch people, this is also the church where Johannes Vermeer has been buried. We will also enter the church and visit his grave.
Museum Prinsenhof Delft
  • 15m
When you visit Delft, you also have to visit the Prinsenhof, the place where the Father of the Fatherland has been killed. This happened almost 50 years before Vermeer was born, but it has played a decisive role in the city's history.
Gemeenlandshuis van Delfland
  • 10m
As we make our way to the south of Delft, from where 'The View of Delft' has been made, we first pass by a quite impressive facade from the year 1500: that of the water board. Your guide will tell you all about it.
VOC-Kamer Delft
  • 20m
When we are almost at the south end of the city, we will pass by a building of the Dutch East India Company, its Delft chamber. It is the Dutch East India Company that made exotic materials and pigments available and indirectly facilitated Vermeer's carreer.
Armamentarium (Pass by)
Opposite of the Dutch East India Company building, we can see a former weapon's arsenal belonging to the state of Holland. An early version of this building can be seen on Vermeer's View of Delft.
Hooikade
  • 20m
From here, we can look at Delft from exactly the same angle as Vermeer, when he made the sketches for his famous painting of the city. Let's see what we can still recognise today.
Maria van Jessekerk
  • 30m
As we have made our way back north again, we will see the Maria van Jessekerk, a catholic church. In Vermeer's time, this was the location where catholics used to live and organise hidden church services. That is why this is also where Vermeer's house (that of his mother in law, where he lived) used to stand, where he made all his paintings. New information from 2023 seems to suggest that the house is not demolished however.. Let's see if the curtains are finally open.
Vlamingstraat
  • 15m
Before we go to the Vermeer Museum, we should visit the Vlamingstraat. It is now believed that number 42 on this street is depicted on Vermeer's other painting of a little street in Delft. Let's see what it looks like now.
Vermeer Centrum Delft
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
You will now enter the Vermeer Centrum, a museum dedicated to the work and live of Vermeer, housed in the former artists' guild of Delft. Vermeer has been here a lot and even became the president of the painters within the guilde.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESMarkt
    • Markt
    • Delft, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHugo Grotius Statue
    • Markt
    • 2611 GW, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

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