Pieterskerk:

  The present church was built between 1390 and 1565;  different parts were designed by several of the most famous architects in the Low Countries. It contains an important organ from 1637, parts of which date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Many renowned university professors are buried here, as well as the painter Jan Steen and the Pilgrims' minister John Robinson.

When you can visit the church, the door to the north transept is open. The inside is well worth seeing, including the memorial to John Robinson in the octagonal baptistry chapel in the far corner diagonally opposite the transept entrance.

 

Continuing along the church, you reach the:

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