The city where Rembrandt was born and also our Catherine Fris ,The mother of Jerome Nicholas Vlieland.
Thousands of people go to leiden to participate in the party.
Is it really so special ?????
Yes it is for all the people , and that is a lot , who have Leiden as their place of birth .
When you are born in this region , the hospitals of Leiden are good and a lot of people who are born there,have Leiden as their place of birth.
In which case you are entitled to a loaf of bread and fresh herring ......but first you have to register each year..It takes 3 hours of waiting to do that .
Same to pick up your loaf and the herrings .
But it is part of the fun.
But it is part of the fun.
And it the morning of 3 October you start with the reveille
and there is also on the night of 2 Octobre the Tattoo.
All clubs of leiden are in this parade from orchestra´s , gymclubs , hockey, just to present their club on this parade.
On 3 Octobre there is the real parade ..through the hart of town .
And it is the gaps in this float that is discussed the most .
After that is the drinking and the fair , eating the stew and enjoying 3 October.
it is a feeling you cannot explain but it feels good .
The songs on this day are typical and have a strong dialect .
But who cares ....................It is October 3.
and Jochem
La la la Leiden
The 3 October Festival (Dutch : 3 Oktober Feest or simply 3 Oktober) is a festival in Leiden, Netherlands, held annually on that date (or on 4 October if it falls on a Sunday) since 1886.
Background
The festival commemorates the anniversary of the 1573–1574 Siege of Leiden, during the Eighty Years' War, when the Spanish Army attempted to capture the city.The first siege was from October 1573 to March 1574, and the Spanish returned in May 1574 for the second siege.
The city had neglected, in the interim, to pull down the Spanish fortifications and to lay in provisions, though they were warned; with the citizens in despair, the mayor offered his own body for food in an attempt to keep morale up. Provisions had run out after two months, and the Spanish were not ousted until the night of 2/3 October 1574; by that time thousands of Leidenaren had starved.
The army of Watergeuzen ("Sea Beggars") led by William the Silent, Prince of Orange, entered the next morning and fed the citizens herring and white bread (haring en wittebrood), and Hutspot later that day.[4]
The festival also commemorates the anniversary of the founding of Leiden University by William of Orange the following year.
Events[edit]
Dutch herring and white bread (haring en wittebrood) is served for free at the festival
The event is an official city holiday, with a variety of festivities.
Most residents of the city take the day off work to either participate in or enjoy the festival. The event starts the previous evening with a parade staged by various Leiden-associated societies, and continues the following morning with a memorial service in St Peter's Church (Pieterskerk), commemorating the events of the Siege. There is another parade that starts at noon, which concludes with a firework display in the evening.
The traditional meal associated with the festival is herring and white bread.These sandwiches are handed out to festival goers for free at the Weigh House(De Waag).[9] Most of the festivities are a short walk from the city's network of canals and the council also provides boat and canoe rides on them. On the day of the festival, another traditional meal, stew ,hutspot (a dish made of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots, and onions), is available.
In addition to the regular activities, the festival usually houses a funfair and market, which begins a day or two before the main events itself.Leiden based band Rubberen Robbie's song "Drie Oktober" commemorates the festival, and its lyrics refers to herring, hutspot, drinking
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