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Amsterdam

created by tweentin2001 on 2012-01-11

Amsterdam
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    city / town

    Bicycles, waterways and bohemians. Europe’s "sin city" is more than advertised. Sure, the hash bar...

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    17 votes

    railway station
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    sight

    The 22 m high obelisk that was officially unveiled in 1956 is a memorial to the victims of the Ge...

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    sight

    A department store with a rich tradition on the Dam. The most famous department-store chain in the...

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    12 votes

    museum / gallery

    Anyone who has always harboured a desire to stand next to Rembrandt, Kylie Minogue or the Dutch c...

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    sight

    On completion in 1631 the Westerkerk was the world's biggest Protestant church. Even more famous ...

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    77 votes

    museum / gallery

    The diarist's hiding place. During the period of German occupation of Amsterdam, Anne Frank and he...

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    sight

    An oasis of tranquility in the city centre. Built as a convent for lay sisters in the year 1346, f...

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    sight

    The Bloemenmarkt is the world's only floating flower market. Founded in 1862, it is sited in Amst...

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    92 votes

    sight

    The water ditches dug during the years 1612 to 1663, characterise the image of the city until tod...

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    17 votes

    sight

    The most well-known square, centre of city life. It is more likely that a visitor leaves Amsterda...

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    64 votes

    park / zoo

    The park, which has a highly festive air, is a meeting place for strollers, skaters, dog owners a...

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    107 votes

    museum / gallery

    Here one can see the world's biggest collection of works by the creator of the "Sunflowers". The s...

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    41 votes

    museum / gallery

    Masterpieces from Rembrandt to Vermeer. The Rijksmuseum contains the most comprehensive collection...

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    theater / opera

    One of the most famous orchestras, not least because of the legendary acoustics of the concert hall.

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    sight

    Dam Square, on which the royal city residence is situated, has great symbolic importance and, tog...

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    neighborhood

    A Fo-Kuang-Shan shrine: a candy-coloured shrine in Chinatown. The commercial heart of the Chinese ...

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    5 votes

    sight

    A unique city fortification which works by controlling the waters. Extending 135 km around the cit...

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    5 votes

    sight

    A statue of Rembrandt was put up on the former butter market in 1876, resulting in the square bei...

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    sight

    The former poor working class quarter has been going through astounding transformations over the ...

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    15 votes

    sight

    Surrounded by longstanding pubs such as the Café Luxembourg, Café Hoppe and Zwart, as well as tre...

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    35 votes

    museum / gallery

    Although beer is no longer brewed at the 135-year-old Heineken brewery at Stadhouderskade, you ca...

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    museum / gallery
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    7 votes

    sight

    Amsterdam was once a hotbed of diamond cutting. This branch of industry became less significant a...

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    11 votes

    sight

    The Magere Brug or "Skinny Bridge" in the center of Amsterdam, connects the opposite banks of Riv...

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    3 votes

    sight

    The coin tower, built in 1620, is situated at the confluence of the Singel and Amstel and was ori...

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    sight
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    sight

    At the beginning of the 1990s, the focus of the city's planners fell on the harbour islands to th...

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    3 votes

    sight

    Anybody wishing to get away from the city and experience Dutch village life without having to tra...

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    2 votes

    sight

    Anybody coming from Sint Antoniesbreestraat through the gate featuring the morbid skull sculpture...

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    3 votes

    park / zoo

    The garden is equipped for times to come with a futuristic greenhouse, a subtropical, desert and ...

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    2 votes

    sight

    This apartment block, which was designed by the architect Michel de Klerk in 1919, owes its name ...

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    sight

    A small park with a strange, Asian-style monument in its centre. It was modelled on a landscaped ...

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    sight

    The renovated church consecrated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Nicolas rises up opposite...

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    sight

    The wooden Amstelkerk was originally intended to be provisional, to be replaced later by a church...

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    1 votes

    sight

    Most beautiful church (1870-80) by the architect Petrus Cuypers, named after the poet/writer Joos...

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    1 votes

    sight

    The building acquired its classical facade in 1681. It visibly fell into a state of disrepair dur...

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    sight
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    sight

    The Oosterkerk ("eastern church") is a 17th-Century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlan...

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    cinema

    Even Queen Beatrix pays the occasional visit to Amsterdam's Expressionist-style cinema, built whe...

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    sight
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    sight

    This defensive tower was erected in the early 16th century at the corner between "Waalseilandsgra...

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    1 votes

    sight

    The centre of "Nieuwmarkt" is home to the oldest secular building in Amsterdam: the former city w...

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    sight

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