Delft — a picture-perfect canal town between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, famous as Vermeer's birthplace and the home of iconic blue-and-white Delftware pottery.

The last remaining Delft Blue pottery factory from the 17th century, with tours of the hand-painting workshop.

Delft's grand central square, dominated by a Gothic church housing the royal crypt of the House of Orange-Nassau.

A museum dedicated to Delft's most famous son, Johannes Vermeer, with reproductions of all his known works.