With her family and a small group of Jews Anne Frank hid in the attic of this house for two years while the Nazi invaders arrested and deported Amsterdam’s Jewish population. Read more.
The tower of this church is 85 metres high and if you climb it you'll get some great views of the city. The great painter Rembrandt is buried here but amazingly no one seems to know where. Read more.
During the war, just as the Nazis had forced Jews to wear yellow stars on their clothes, homosexuals were made to wear pink ones in the concentration camps. Read more.
It’s really is a multimedia experience which brings to life the Amsterdam’s long history with artefacts ranging from clothing to a fifteenth century map of the city. Read more.
The order of the Begijns was founded in around 1150 as a refuge for women from well to do families who were either widows or spinsters. Read more.
The main flower you’ll see here is the tulip. The tulip is the most famous Dutch flower, of course. Read more.
You are now on Dam Square, the very spot where Amsterdam began. On this spot, around the year 1250, the people of Amsterdam built a dam across the River Amstel. Read more.
This place once marked the beginning of the road to Leiden and this square was the first thing travellers saw of the canal ring and of Amsterdam when they entered the city Read more.
In fact, Paradiso was a church until 1967, which is obvious from the high, church-like windows with their rounded tops, which are typical of churches. Read more.
Many of the works of art that date from around the same time as the canal ring are to be found in the imposing edifice on the opposite side of the road and the water. Read more.
Nowadays, the merchant houses on the Golden Bend often provide office accommodation for businesses such as law firms, banks and stock exchange dealers. Read more.
In 2013, the enthronement of King Willem-Alexander took place here on Dam Square, making him Monarch of the Kingdom of the NL, and spoke to the people on the square from the balcony of the palace Read more.
Amsterdam Central Station - one of the most beautiful buildings in this city. Here trams, buses, bikes and people coming from every direction Read more.
It was the first bar where instead of cash sailors could pay with various objects they brought from overseas. Legend claims that sailors often paid their bills with monkeys. Read more.
Many notable citizens of Amsterdam were buried in this church – around 10 thousand people under 2,5 thousand tombstones. Among them is Saskia van Uylenburgh wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Read more.
In 1775 French baker’s servant nearly shot a minister. The servant was in love with the daughter of a local wealthy merchant who was strongly advised against this wedding by the minister. Read more.
