Like the day before, the program of their third day in Germany was punctuated with historical visit. The King and Queen of the Netherlands thus visited the church of the Wittenberg Castle in the afternoon, on the portal of which Luther displayed on October 31th, 1517, his 95 theses which would trigger the Protestant Reformation in Germany. The building also houses his tomb, as well as that of Phillip Melanchthon, one of his closest disciples. The city of Saxony-Anhalt, known in German as Lutherstadt Wittenberg (Wittenberg city of Luther), has several monuments inscribed by UNESCO as World Heritage of Humanity in 1996 for their outstanding universal importance as places Authentic of the Reformation.

In the morning, it was a closer past that interested the Dutch royal couple. They went to Leipzig on the premises of a Plattenbau, a large group of concrete dwelling buildings typical of East German architecture from the second half of the 20th century. The opportunity to evoke the former GDR and the difficult period after reunification.


The planning of Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands also included the discovery of the European Energy Exchange (EEX - the largest market for energy goods) and an accelerator in Leipzig Startups mixing young entrepreneurs and cultural institutions. The Dutch sovereign and his wife were also present for the signing of two cooperation agreements in connection with green chemistry. And they have lunch and dinner respectively with the ministers-presidents of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. As on Wednesday, the mother of the three wore two different outfits: an aquamarine-colored silk dress with bell sleeves and suede clutch from fashion house Natan and a well-known beige pillbox, and JAN TAMINIAU T strap heels in the Day, a gray VALENTINO Jumpsuit, SERGIO ROSSI snake skin clutch and a diamond necklace from the royal vault, in the evening.
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