Long stories don't live up to the pictures from before and after the restoration of the Calèche of Castle de Haar. The masterpiece is finished! And with it, the third carriage of the castle is future-proof and presentable again, to put it simply, it is a stunning beauty that we are allowed to enjoy.

Fun fact: it is a carriage without a coachman. How that works. It is driven with a four-horse, with two postilions sitting on the left horses. 'A la Daumont' is what it's called. This has two advantages: the passengers in the carriage do not look up to a buck - on which a coachman normally sits - and the public along the side of the road can admire the passengers properly.

Another fun fact: this Calèche was built at Mühlbacher, the oldest and most exclusive carriage manufacturer in Paris in the ^19th century. That already made it an expensive thing in its day. Because of the eight-way suspension ("a huit ressorts"), the bill picked up even higher, and what made this carriage completely unaffordable for a normal mortal is the open-topped cabinet "a jour. Not even Queen Wilhelmina's Crème Calèche had the latter, and we may therefore, especially due to its original condition, secretly whisper that Castle de Haar has the most extraordinary Calèche in the Netherlands.

But enough chatter: watch and enjoy!

The four carriages in this project come from the management of Borg and Nationaal Rijtuigmuseum Nienoord and are transferred to long-term loan by Kasteel De Haar. This project has been made possible in part by VZW Pater David, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Bonhomme Tielens, VSB Fonds, Mondriaan Fonds and Stichting kasteel de Haar. The Hippomobile Heritage Foundation is supervising the implementation and providing communication.