Historic corner of Delft

What glorious Spring days we have here! 
Made another ride thro' Delft today and here's the church tower of the Old John or Skewed John (Oude Jan); this church was founded in 1246 as St Bartholomew's church on the site of previous churches standing here before.

The buildings up front belonged to the St. Agatha monastery what was founded here in the final decades of the 14th Century. Two centuries onwards the prince William of Orange (Willem van Oranje) often took his residence here in this monastery; hence its present name Prince's Court (Prinsenhof). William of Orange was killed with a gunshot by the Spaniard Balthasar Gerards (I think we all here learned that name and date from our history lessons in school) on the stairway in the house here on the left. This William of Orange is the founding father of the royals who governed and govern the Netherlands.

And as the Greeks say: Καλο Μηνα σας!