Baarn

• City

Baarn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.The municipality BaarnThe municipality of Baarn consists of the following towns: Baarn, Eembrugge, Lage Vuursche.The town BaarnBaarn, 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 had a population of 22,871. The urban area of the town was 4.66km2, and consisted of 10,076 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 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. A piece of forest, the Baarnse Bos, is adjacent to the palace and historically belonged to it.