Monument Naald van Rijswijk

You're standing at the Needle of Rijswijk, a slender stone obelisk in the Rijswijk woods. It isn't here by chance. This is where a palace of the stadtholders once stood, Huis ter Nieuwburg. And in that palace, in September 1697, a major peace treaty was signed: the Treaty of Ryswick. The needle keeps that memory alive.