DE WAALSE KERK

(Walloon Church):

Now used by the Walloon church (French-speaking Protestants, also called Huguenots), in Pilgrim times it was the chapel of the St. Catharine's Hospital. Across the street from the Walloon church is the impressively ornamented headquarters of the Waterways Commission for Rijnland (1599), now containing a heritage center.

With a slight jog to the right, the Mandenmakerssteeg continues on the other side of the Breestraat, taking the name Diefsteeg. The first cross street on the Diefsteeg is the


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