Veilige Betaling On its tall legs and looking down its nose – R. van Lit

Sooner or later everyone who lives in, or visits The Hague is bound to meet it. On municipal stationary, facades, weather vanes and traffic bollards. The stork is a very familiar sight. Since the sixteenth century the stork has graced The Hague’s coat of arm and a wide range of city fixtures. In this book, Robert van Lit, historian at The Hague Historical Museum, sketches the background and history of the Hague’s stork. When was the bird chosen as the city’s heraldic symbol? And why the stork? The book not…