Ask a child to draw a castle, and you’ll get something resembling Kasteel de Haar: turrets, thick brick walls, and red-and-white painted shutters. This is the image from the Grimm fairy tales, later firmly embedded in the collective memory by Disney. In the 19th century, architect Pierre Cuypers was the go-to man to transform the castle ruin that was De Haar into a castle that was both comfortable and fairy-tale-like. / READ MORE /














