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Population centres The municipality of Baarn consists of the following towns: Baarn, Eembrugge, Lage Vuursche. The town Baarn Baarn, the main town of the municipality, received city rights in 1391. The town lies about 8 km east of Hilversum. In 2001, the town of Baarn counted 22871 inhabitants. The urban area of the town was 4.66 km² wide, and contained 10076 residences. The royal family owns several houses around Baarn. The Soestdijk Palace in Baarn was the home of Queen Emma, Queen Juliana and Juliana's husband prince Bernard. Crown prince Willem Alexander and his brothers attended school (Nieuwe Baarnse School and Baarnsch Lyceum) in Baarn when Queen Beatrix (then princess) and her family lived at Castle Drakesteijn in the village of Lage Vuursche, before they moved to The Hague in 1980. Baarn has nice shopping facilities, mainly located in the Laanstraat. Other places worth visiting include 'het Cantonspark' (a botanic Garden) and Kasteel (=castle) Groeneveld. In the north and west there are polders, and the river Eem. In the east and south there are woods, with good possibilities for recreation. It has a railroad station, with trains going every half hour to Utrecht (30 minutes) Amersfoort (5 minutes) and Amsterdam (about 40 minutes). The A1 highway runs close to Baarn. Well-known people from Baarn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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