Route through Alphen aan den Rijn

\\\'May any place or spot glory in bloom and prosperity\\\'.

Surely it is this Village, so shown by art.

There flatters and ever zig saw richly rewarded.

And that is why it should never be praised as renowned.

\\\'The trees that are grown here mean that Boskoop never lacks praise.\\\'

Nowhere is it clearer how history has been the basis of the current landscape, social and economic developments. Transfer of the area, in the early Middle Ages, to a nunnery is at the root of the tree nursery.