Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn lies where the wooded Veluwe rises above the IJssel valley. Nearby, the House of Orange-Nassau made its home at Het Loo. The palace was built between 1684 and 1686 for the stadtholder William III and his wife Mary, with a symmetrical Baroque design by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and gardens designed by Claude Desgots. After William's death in 1702, the estate passed through the inheritance disputes of the Orange-Nassau family and eventually came to William IV.