The Hague Festivals, a collective name for a number of events in June, attracted a total of 380,000 visitors this year. The Festival Classique which opened the season drew 53,000, the 13-day PopHotSpot on the Grote Markt 40,000, and the Shopping Night 100,000. Veterans Day and Pink Saturday (the gay rights festival) accounted for 70,000 and 63,000 visitors, respectively

These figures do not include visitors to Parkpop, Vlaggetjesdag (the herring festival), The Hague Sculpture exhibition on the Lange Voorhout and the sand sculptures on the Binnenhof.

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