AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
, one of
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
's smaller capitals, has many attractions for visitors. The town's most famous sight is the system of canals ("
grachten"), that spreads over the whole city centre.
- The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is the national museum of the Netherlands.
- The Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.-Main exhibition:...
specialises in works by Vincent van Gogh.
- The Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum....
specialises in modern art.
- The Rembrandt House Museum
The Rembrandt House Museum is a house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Rembrandt lived and painted for a number of years. It is now a museum...
specialises in works by Rembrandt van Rijn.
- The Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building...
, Prinsengracht 263.
- The Hermitage Amsterdam
Hermitage Amsterdam or Hermitage on the Amstel is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg on the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The dependency is located at the former Amstelhof, a classical style building from 1681. The dependency has been displaying small exhibitions in a side...
, a dependency of the Hermitage MuseumThe State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
in Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
.
- The Tropenmuseum
The Tropenmuseum is an anthropological museum located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The Tropenmuseum, one of the largest museums in Amsterdam, accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, including both modern and traditional visual arts and photographic...
, anthropological museum.
- The NEMO (museum)
NEMO is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It is located in Amsterdam. The architecture is by Renzo Piano. NEMO is located right next to the Amsterdam central station and the Maritime museum.-Lobby:...
, the science museum in a building that looks like a sinking ship.
- The Burcht, National Trade Unions Museum built by Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
- The Verzetsmuseum
The Dutch Resistance Museum is located in Amsterdam.The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, tells the story of the Dutch people in World War II...
, the Amsterdam resistance museum.
- The Amsterdams Historisch Museum
The Amsterdams Historisch Museum is a museum about the history of Amsterdam. Since 1975, it is located in the old Civil Orphanage between Kalverstraat and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.-Collection:...
, Amsterdam's historical museum.
- The Allard Pierson Museum
||-||-||}The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam.
- The Bijbels Museum
The Bijbels Museum , originally founded in 1852, is housed since 1975 in two imposing canalside buildings, known as the Cromhout houses, on Amsterdam's stately Herengracht canal. The buildings are famed also for the ceiling paintings by Jacob de Wit, which were restored in 1999-2000...
, where the BibleThe Bible contains the central religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, as it is written almost entirely in the Hebrew language, with some small portions in Aramaic...
, art and culture meet in a monument full of history.
- The Filmmuseum, Holland's museum for cinematography.
- The Joods Historisch Museum
The Joods Historisch Museum is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history...
, The Jewish Historical Museum collects objects and works of art associated with the religion, culture and history of the Jews in the Netherlands and its former colonies.
- The Museum Van Loon
Museum Van Loon is museum, located in a canalside house alongside the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum is named after the family Van Loon that lived in the house from the 19th century.-External links:*...
, a home on the canal.
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AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
, one of
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
's smaller capitals, has many attractions for visitors. The town's most famous sight is the system of canals ("
grachten"), that spreads over the whole city centre.
Museums
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- The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is the national museum of the Netherlands.
- The Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.-Main exhibition:...
specialises in works by Vincent van Gogh.
- The Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum....
specialises in modern art.
- The Rembrandt House Museum
The Rembrandt House Museum is a house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Rembrandt lived and painted for a number of years. It is now a museum...
specialises in works by Rembrandt van Rijn.
- The Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building...
, Prinsengracht 263.
- The Hermitage Amsterdam
Hermitage Amsterdam or Hermitage on the Amstel is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg on the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The dependency is located at the former Amstelhof, a classical style building from 1681. The dependency has been displaying small exhibitions in a side...
, a dependency of the Hermitage MuseumThe State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
in Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
.
- The Tropenmuseum
The Tropenmuseum is an anthropological museum located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The Tropenmuseum, one of the largest museums in Amsterdam, accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, including both modern and traditional visual arts and photographic...
, anthropological museum.
- The NEMO (museum)
NEMO is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It is located in Amsterdam. The architecture is by Renzo Piano. NEMO is located right next to the Amsterdam central station and the Maritime museum.-Lobby:...
, the science museum in a building that looks like a sinking ship.
- The Burcht, National Trade Unions Museum built by Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
- The Verzetsmuseum
The Dutch Resistance Museum is located in Amsterdam.The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, tells the story of the Dutch people in World War II...
, the Amsterdam resistance museum.
- The Amsterdams Historisch Museum
The Amsterdams Historisch Museum is a museum about the history of Amsterdam. Since 1975, it is located in the old Civil Orphanage between Kalverstraat and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.-Collection:...
, Amsterdam's historical museum.
- The Allard Pierson Museum
||-||-||}The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam.
- The Bijbels Museum
The Bijbels Museum , originally founded in 1852, is housed since 1975 in two imposing canalside buildings, known as the Cromhout houses, on Amsterdam's stately Herengracht canal. The buildings are famed also for the ceiling paintings by Jacob de Wit, which were restored in 1999-2000...
, where the BibleThe Bible contains the central religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, as it is written almost entirely in the Hebrew language, with some small portions in Aramaic...
, art and culture meet in a monument full of history.
- The Filmmuseum, Holland's museum for cinematography.
- The Joods Historisch Museum
The Joods Historisch Museum is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history...
, The Jewish Historical Museum collects objects and works of art associated with the religion, culture and history of the Jews in the Netherlands and its former colonies.
- The Museum Van Loon
Museum Van Loon is museum, located in a canalside house alongside the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum is named after the family Van Loon that lived in the house from the 19th century.-External links:*...
, a home on the canal. The double-sized canal house dates from 1672.
- The Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum, museum about Dutch maritime history. Due to renovation closed from January 2007, probably until June 2009.
- The Pianola Museum.
- The Handbag Museum.
- The Kattenkabinet
The KattenKabinet is an art museum in Amsterdam devoted to works depicting cats. The museum collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Corneille, Sal Meijer, Théophile Steinlen, and Jože Ciuha, among others.The...
, museum about cats.
- The Universiteitsmuseum, the Amsterdam university museum.
- Het Schip
Het Schip is an apartment building in the Spaarndammerbuurt district of Amsterdam, built in the architectural style of the Amsterdam School . It is the single most important example of this style of architecture....
, museum about the Amsterdam School architectural movement of the early 20th century.
- The Amsterdam Dungeon, a unique combination of a museum, theatre and an attraction park.
- Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen
Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen is a canal-side mansion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This patrician mansion, close to the Rembrandtplein, was built for Albert Geelvinck and Sara Hinlopen , then in an attractive and new laid-out section of the city towards the Amstel...
, a mansion on the Herengracht, with four period rooms and a tranquil garden.
- Diamond Museum Amsterdam
The Diamond Museum Amsterdam is a museum located at the Museumplein in Amsterdam. The permanent collection consists of diamond jewelry and tells background information about diamonds.-External links:*...
, a museum at the Museumplein about the history of diamonds.
Churches
- Oude Kerk
The Oude Kerk is Amsterdam’s oldest parish church, consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht. It stands in De Wallen, now Amsterdam's main red-light district.The church covers an area of some 3,300 square meters...
(ca. 1400).
- Nieuwe Kerk
The Nieuwe Kerk is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam.The church is used for royal inaugurations, most recently the inauguration of Queen Beatrix in 1980, and royal weddings, most recently the wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, to princess Máxima in 2002.The Nieuwe Kerk is a burial...
(1490).
- Zuiderkerk
The Zuiderkerk is a 17th Century Protestant church in the Nieuwmarkt area of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The church played an important part in the life of Rembrandt and was the subject of a painting by Claude Monet....
the city's first church built specifically for Protestant services (1603-1611).
- Noorderkerk (1620-1623).
- Westerkerk
The Westerkerk is a Protestant church in Amsterdam, built in 1620-1631 after a design by Hendrick de Keyser. The church is right next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district, at the bank of the Prinsengracht canal....
, finished in 1638 after a design by Hendrick de KeyserHendrick de Keyser was a Dutch sculptor and architect born in Utrecht, Netherlands, who was instrumental in establishing a late Renaissance form of Mannerism in Amsterdam...
.
- Oosterkerk, construction was completed in 1671.
- Ronde Lutherse Kerk, first round Lutheran Church- Reformed Church in the Netherlands with a copper dome.
- English Reformed Church, Amsterdam
The English Reformed Church is one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated in the centre of the city. It is home to an English-speaking congregation which is affiliated to the Church of Scotland and to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands...
, one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated right in the centre of the city.
- Sint Nicolaaskerk, neo-Renaissance and Baroque church in Amsterdam.
- De Duif
De Duif is a church on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. At present – after the recent restoration by Stadsherstel Amsterdam – it is rented out for all kinds of events.- History :...
.
- "Onze Lieve Heer op Zolder"
Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder is a 17th century canal house, house church, and museum in the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Catholic church was built on the top three floors of the canal house during the 1660s...
- Museum Amstelkring (a church hidden in an attic).
- De papegaai, located in the busy Kalverstraat.The neogothic church was built in 1848.
- Mozes en Aäronkerk.
- Posthoornkerk.
- Amstelkerk.
Bridges
- The Magere Brug
The Magere Brug is a bridge over the river Amstel in the city centre of Amsterdam. It connects the banks of the river at Kerkstraat street, between the Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht canals....
is probably the most famous draw bridge in Amsterdam.
- The Blauwe brug
thumb|right|BlauwbrugThe Blauwbrug is an historic bridge in Amsterdam. It connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area.thumb|right|Blauwbrug...
, which connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area.
- The Python Bridge, bridge connects Sporenburg to Borneo Island and won the International Footbridge Award 2002.
- The Jan Schaeferbrug, built in 2001, straight through warehouse De Zwijger, after a design by architect T. Venhoeven
Buildings
- Royal Palace (Amsterdam)
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam is one of four palaces in the Netherlands which is at the disposal of Queen Beatrix by Act of Parliament. The palace was built as city hall during the Dutch Golden Age in the seventeenth century. The building became the royal palace of king Louis Napoleon and later of...
, former city hall, built in 1648.
- Stopera
||-||-||}The Stopera is a building complex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, housing both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Muziektheater, the principal opera house in Amsterdam and the home of De Nederlandse Opera, Het Nationale Ballet, and the Holland Symfonia.The name "Stopera" is a portmanteau of...
, Cityhall and Opera.
- Kalvertoren
The Kalvertoren, a shopping center in Amsterdam, is located on Kalverstraat, Amsterdam's busiest shopping street.The project was developed by Multi Corporation...
, shopping mall located in the busy Kalverstraat.
- AEX
The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market index composed of Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, formerly known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Started in 1983, the index is composed of a maximum of 25 of the most actively traded securities on the exchange...
, stock trading building.
- Beurs van Berlage
The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the center of Amsterdam. It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School...
, was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
- Centraal Station, Neo Gothic building.
- De Waag
A weigh house or weighing house is a building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. Most of these buildings were built before 1800, prior to the establishment of international standards for weights...
, part of the city fortifications was built in 1481-1494.
- Montelbaanstoren
The Montelbaanstoren is a tower on bank of the canal Oudeschans in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The original tower was built in 1516 for the purpose of defending the city. The top half was extended to it's current, decorative form in 1606.-External links:...
, the tower was built in 1512 as a part of the city fortification.
- Munttoren
The Munttoren or Munt is a tower in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It stands on the busy Muntplein square, near the flower market and the start of the Kalverstraat shopping street, where the Amstel river and the Singel canal meet....
, the tower was built in 1619-1620 and it is the southern tower among all other ones in AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
- Pakhuis De Zwijger, built in 1933-1934 after a design by architect J. de Bie Leuveling Tjeenk, this was a warehouse for cooling perishables.
- The house with the waterfall, at the Zuiderkerkhof.
- Nieuwe Wereld, by architects Meyer and Van Schooten. The name goes back to the 1980s when squatters lived here and called their place 'End of the World'.
- Barcelona Building, building from 1993 by architect B. Albert on the Levantkade.
- Emerald Empire, building on the far end of KNSM Lane by architect J. Coenen.
- The Magna Plaza, a former post office dating back to 1899 and it was converted to a shopping mall in 1990
- The Whale, mega-apartment building by architect F. van Dongen. It took five years to complete (1995-2000).
- Skydome, 60 meter tall towerblock was designed by architect W. Arets and has 3 vertical dents.
- Lloydhotel, was built between 1917-1920 to serve as an emigrants hotel.
- Oost-Indisch Huis
||-||-||}The Oost-Indisch Huis is an early 17th-Century building in the centre of Amsterdam. It was the most important building of the Dutch East India Company ....
, Since 1606 till 1798 former headquarters of VOC (The United Dutch East Asia Company), a 17th Century Dutch trading giant.
- Rembrandt Tower
The Rembrandt Tower is an office skyscraper in Amsterdam. It has a height of 135 meters, 35 floors and it has a spire which extends its height to 149.85 meters. It was constructed from 1991 to 1994. The building's foundation required piles 56 meters long and two meters in diameter. It is the first...
, a 135 metres high skyscraper.
- Bijlmerbajes
The Bijlmerbajes is a prison complex in Amsterdam, Holland, near the Amstel station. The official name is Penitentiaire Inrichting Over-Amstel, although it is also known as Penitentiaire Inrichting De Stadspoort or Penitentiaire Inrichtingen Amsterdam.The building was designed as a humane prison...
, a prison in Amsterdam near the Amstel station.
- Amsterdam ArenA
Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The stadium was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on August 14, 1996. It has been used for association football, American football, concerts, and other events. The stadium has a retractable roof...
, a football stadium in Amsterdam home to football club Ajax.
- Begijnhof, Amsterdam
The Begijnhof is one of the oldest inner courts in the city of Amsterdam. A group of historic buildings, mostly private dwellings, centre on it. As the name suggests, it was originally a Béguinage...
, one of the oldest inner courts in Amsterdam.
- The Portuguese Synagogue, impressive building was founded in 1670 by the Sephardic Jewish community.
- El Tawheed Mosque
The El Tawheed Mosque is a mosque in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The foundation that manages the mosque was founded in 1986. The mosque is on Jan Hanzenstraat in the Old-West section of Amsterdam. Aside from its normal function, the mosque is used for social work, and for lessons in the Arabic...
, a mosque in Amsterdam, founded in 1986.
- Homomonument
The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their homosexuality...
, a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam commemorating all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation.
- Millennium Tower (Amsterdam)
Millennium Tower is a , 24 storey office building in Amsterdam constructed from 2002 and completed in 2004.-External links:*...
, a 97.5 metre tall (24 floor) office building in Amsterdam.
- Olympisch Stadion (Amsterdam)
The Olympisch Stadion was built as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. When completed, the stadium had a capacity of 31,600. Following the completion of the rival De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in 1937, the Amsterdam authorities decided to increase the capacity of the...
, was built as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer OlympicsThe 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium and Pierre de...
. It was designed by the architect Jan WilsJan Wils was a Dutch architect.He was born in Alkmaar and died in Voorburg.Wils was one of the founding members of the De Stijl movement, which also included artists as Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and Gerrit Rietveld.Among others, Wils designed the Olympic stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics...
.
- The Amsterdam Metro
The Amsterdam Metro is a mixed rapid transit and light rail system in Amsterdam, and its surrounding municipalities Amstelveen, Diemen, and Ouder-Amstel in the Netherlands. The network is owned by the city of Amsterdam and operated by the Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf, the company that also operates...
, a three main lines in the metro system.
- Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
The Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam is a collective name for all public libraries in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The first library opened in 1919 at the Keizersgracht. As of 2007, there are 28 public libraries and 43 lending points, such as in hospitals...
(Public Library) by architect J. Coenen on Oosterdokseiland, next to Central Station. Has a wonderful view over the city.
Concert halls
- The Concertgebouw
The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building"...
is home to the world-class symphony orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest.
- Stopera
||-||-||}The Stopera is a building complex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, housing both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Muziektheater, the principal opera house in Amsterdam and the home of De Nederlandse Opera, Het Nationale Ballet, and the Holland Symfonia.The name "Stopera" is a portmanteau of...
, Cityhall and Opera.
- Heineken Music Hall
Heineken Music Hall is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands, near the Amsterdam ArenA .The big hall is used for the concerts, has a capacity of 5,500 and is 3000 m²...
.
- Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is a music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The venue is inside an old church, which has been transformed into a music venue. It is located on de Weteringschans, bordering the Leidseplein, one of the nightlife and tourism centers of the city. Outside, the building...
.
- Melkweg
The Melkweg is a popular music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is located on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein, a prime nightlife center of Amsterdam. It is housed in a former warehouse and is divided into a number of spaces of varying sizes...
.
Diamond factories
- Amsterdam Diamond Centre.
- Coster Diamonds
Coster Diamonds is one of the oldest still operating diamond polishing factories in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They were responsible for the creation of a few historical masterpieces, like the re-polishing of the Koh i Noor, mounted in the Crown of Queen Mary, to be admired in the Tower of London,...
, one of the oldest diamond polishing factories in the Netherlands.
- Gassan Diamonds.
- Zazare Diamonds.
Red-light districts
There are three red-light districts in Amsterdam:
- de Wallen
De Wallen is the largest and best-known red-light district in Amsterdam and a major tourist attraction. It is located in the heart of the oldest part of Amsterdam, covering several blocks south of the church Oude Kerk and crossed by several canals....
, which is located about the Oude Kerk
- The Singelgebied, located around the Singel
| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}The Singel is a canal in Amsterdam which encircled the city in the Middle Ages. It served as a moat around the city until 1585, when Amsterdam expanded beyond the Singel. The canal runs from the IJ bay, near Central Station, to the Muntplein square, where it meets the Amstel...
and north of the Nieuwe Kerk,
- Some isolated windows along the Ruysdaelkade in the de Pijp district, west-southwest from Albert Cuypmarkt.
Squares
There are many squares (suffixed with
plein) in Amsterdam. Here is a partial list of some of the better-known ones:
- The Dam
Dam Square, or simply the Dam is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the most well-known and important locations in the city.- Location and description :...
, the central square of Amsterdam, where stands the Royal Palace on the Dam and the Netherlands National Monument.
- Koningsplein
Koningsplein is a square in Amsterdam. It is located between the Singel and Herengracht canals. It has become a meeting place for the local community- References :...
.
- Leidseplein
The Leidseplein is a square in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lying in the southwest of the central district of Amsterdam, the Leidseplein is immediately northeast of the Singelgracht canal. It is situated on the crossroads of the Weteringschans, the Marnixstraat, and the Leidsestraat. The...
, a plaza on the southwest end of the Leidsestraat.
- Muntplein
The Muntplein is a square in the centre of Amsterdam. The square is in fact a bridge — the widest bridge in Amsterdam — which crosses the Singel canal at the point where it flows into the Amstel river...
, at the intersection of Kalverstraat and Rokin, a town squareA town square is an open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings. Other names for town square are civic center, city square, urban square, market square, public square, Platz , plaza , piazza , place , and "maydan" A town square is an open area commonly...
centered on the old Tower of the Mint (MunttorenThe Munttoren or Munt is a tower in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It stands on the busy Muntplein square, near the flower market and the start of the Kalverstraat shopping street, where the Amstel river and the Singel canal meet....
).
- Museumplein
The Museumplein is a square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The square is called "Museum Square" because four museums are located around the square: the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Diamond Museum. The square was reconstructed in 1999 by Sven-Ingvar Andersson...
, southwest of the RijksmuseumThe Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history...
, holds the Stedelijk MuseumThe Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum....
and the Van Gogh MuseumThe Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.-Main exhibition:...
.
- Rembrandtplein
Rembrandtplein is a major square in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is named after the famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn....
.
- Waterlooplein
Waterlooplein is a square in the centre of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, near the Amstel river. The daily flea market on the square is popular with tourists. The Stopera city hall and opera building and the Mozes en Aäronkerk church stand on Waterlooplein....
, south of the Rembrandt House MuseumThe Rembrandt House Museum is a house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Rembrandt lived and painted for a number of years. It is now a museum...
, the site of an open-air market.
- Markenplein
Markenplein is the name of a square in the centre of Amsterdam.Until 1970, it was called het oude Markenpleintje and before World War II it used to be a part of the Jewish district of Amsterdam...
, a place which holds Netherlands Film and Television AcademyThe Netherlands Film and Television Academy was founded in 1958.The academy is the only recognised institute in the Netherlands that offers training to prepare for the work in the various crew disciplines...
(NFTA), close by the WaterloopleinWaterlooplein is a square in the centre of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, near the Amstel river. The daily flea market on the square is popular with tourists. The Stopera city hall and opera building and the Mozes en Aäronkerk church stand on Waterlooplein....
.
- Azartplein, is the end of the Java Island walk, crossing this square will lead to KNSM Island.
Open-air markets
- Albert Cuyp markt
The Albert Cuyp Market is a street market in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the Albert Cuypstraat between Ferdinand Bolstraat and Van Woustraat, in the De Pijp area of the "Oud-Zuid" district of the city. The street and market are named for Albert Cuyp, a 17th century painter.The market began as an...
, great open-air food marked in the borough De Pijp.
- Waterlooplein
Waterlooplein is a square in the centre of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, near the Amstel river. The daily flea market on the square is popular with tourists. The Stopera city hall and opera building and the Mozes en Aäronkerk church stand on Waterlooplein....
, south of the Rembrandt House MuseumThe Rembrandt House Museum is a house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Rembrandt lived and painted for a number of years. It is now a museum...
, the site of an open-air market.
- Dappermarkt
The Dappermarkt is a market in the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam-east and is one of the busiest markets of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.In 1910, the Dapperstraat was officially designated by the municipality of Amsterdam as a market street. The Dappermarkt draws visitors from the all over the Netherlands...
, open-air food and cloths market in the borough Dapperbuurt.
- Noordermarkt
The Noordermarkt is a square in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.The square is lined by cafés and restaurants. Markets are held on the square every Monday. On Saturdays, a popular organic farmer's market is held on the square...
, Saturday market for organic foodOrganic foods are made according to certain production standards. For the vast majority of human history, agriculture can be described as organic; only during the 20th century was a large supply of new synthetic chemicals introduced to the food supply...
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- Tsaar Peter Markt, small daily marked in the Tsaar Peter street.
- Bloemenmarkt
The Bloemenmarkt is the world's only floating flower market. Founded in 1862, it is sited in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Singel between Muntplein and Koningsplein in the city's southern canal belt. It includes 15 florists and garden shops as well as a range of souvenir gifts.
, the famous and only floating flower market.
Breweries
- Heineken Brewery
Heineken International is a Dutch brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. As of 2007, Heineken owns over 119 breweries in more than 65 countries and employs approximately 54,004 people...
, located in the borough De Pijp. Now a museum.
- Brouwerij 't IJ
Brouwerij 't IJ is a small brewery in Amsterdam, Netherlands owned by Kaspar Peterson. It is located in a former bath house named Funen, next to the windmill De Gooyer. The brewery was opened in October 1985. It currently brews five standard beers, four season beers, and three occasional beers....
(Brouwerij 't IJ), located in the beautiful De Gooier windmillA windmill is a machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. The main use is for a grinding mill powered by the wind, reducing a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing...
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Periodic events
- April - 420
420, 4:20 or 4/20 refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis drug subculture.-Origins:...
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- April - Koninginnedag
Koninginnedag or Queen's Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba on 30 April or on 29 April if the 30th is a Sunday. Queen's Day celebrates the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands and is supposed to be a day of national unity and "togetherness"...
, Queen's day, 30 April, former Queen JulianaJuliana was Queen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from her mother's abdication in 1948 to her own in 1980.-Early life:...
's birthday, also the day Juliana transferred her title to her daughter BeatrixBeatrix has been the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 30 April 1980, when her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated.-Early life:...
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- June - The Amsterdam Roots Festival, last week of June, international music festival.
- June - Holland Festival
The Holland Festival is The Netherland's oldest and largest performing arts festival, and takes place every June in Amsterdam. It comprises theater, music, opera and modern dance. In recent years, multimedia, visual arts and film were added to the festival roster...
is an international festival for theater, music, dance, opera, film and art, throughout the month of June.
- August - Amsterdam Pride
The Amsterdam Pride is an annual gay festival in the centre of Amsterdam, organized in the first weekend of August. With several hundreds of thousands visitors this event is one of the largest public events of the Netherlands...
, first weekend of August, gay prideLGBT pride or gay pride is the concept that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity...
weekend.
- August - Hartjesdag
Originally Hartjesdag was a festival celebrated on the third Monday in August in the Dutch areas of Haarlem and Bloemendaal and in various parts of Amsterdam, particularly around the Haarlemmerplein, in the Jordaan, and in the Dapperbuurt. On Hartjesdag fires were kindled and children collected...
, 3rd weekend in August.
- August - Uitmarkt
The Uitmarkt is the opening of the cultural season in Amsterdam, held every year over a weekend at the end of August, usually on and around the Leidseplein, Museumplein and Nieuwmarkt. Many theatres open their doors for free to shows that range from classical music and ballet to hiphop, cabaret,...
, last weekend in August, the start of the cultural season.
- August - Amsterdam Tournament
The Amsterdam Tournament is an annual association football tournament played in the pre-season, hosted by AFC Ajax. It is organised by the International Event Partnership ....
, late August, International Football tournament hosted by AFC Ajax.
- August - Sail Amsterdam
SAIL Amsterdam is a large maritime manifestation held every 5 years in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tall ships from all over the world visit the city to moor in its Eastern harbour, and people can then visit the ships for four days ....
, a five-yearly event, when tall shipA tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails...
s from all over the world can be visited; next event 2010.
- October - Amsterdam Marathon
The Amsterdam Marathon is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1975. It has taken place in October since the 24th edition in 1999, and has attracted many top athletes from around the world since the late 1990s, when the organizers...
, mid-October.
- October – The Bokbier Beer Festival in the Beurs van Berlage (Old stock Exchange).
- October – Grachtenrace (Canal Race), 25km rowing race, 2nd Saturday in October.
- October - Amsterdam Dance Event. An international conference for the electronic and dance music industry. Also a clubfestival with 600+ acts/DJ's performing at 40 locations!
- November - Shadow Festival of Documentary Film.
- November – December The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam....
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- November - Cannabis Cup
The Cannabis Cornelius Cup is a festival that was started in 1987 by High Times editor Steven Hager, who came to The Netherlands for an interview with the founder of the first Dutch cannabis-seed company. The Australian owner, Nevil, lived in a mansion filled with growrooms that Hager dubbed "The...
, mid-November annual cannabis competition, hosted by High TimesHigh Times is a New York-based magazine devoted chiefly to cannabis culture. The publication strongly advocates the legalization of cannabis. For a brief period, it moved toward a left-leaning lifestyle magazine under publisher Richard Stratton, who hired John Mailer, Norman Mailer's youngest son,...
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