Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

IJ-toren may refer to:IJ-toren (Veemkade), a residential tower built in 1998 in Amsterdam IJ Tower, an office tower built in 2002 in Amsterdam

Wikipedia: IJ-toren (NL)

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. The building was designed by Danish architects 3XN. The Bimhuis is part of and partly integrated in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.

Wikipedia: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (EN), Website

Moon over Ameland is an artistic work of art, which is displayed on an architectural work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Maan over Ameland (NL), Website

The Shipping House is a building on the western tip of the Waalseiland near Amsterdam harbour that is one of the top 100 Dutch heritage sites and generally regarded as the first true example of the Amsterdam School, a style characterised by "expressive dynamism, lavish ornamentation and colourful embellishments". It is situated on the Prins Hendrikkade and was erected on the spot where Cornelis Houtman's first trip to the East Indies had begun in 1595. The first part was built 1913 - 1916 ; the second part was built 1926 -1928. Originally, it was the headquarters of six leading Amsterdam shipping companies: the Netherlands Steamship Company (SMN), the Royal Packet Navigation Company (KPM), the Java-China-Japan Line (JCJL) and the Royal Dutch Steamboat Company (KNSM) with subsidiary New Rhine Navigation Company (NRM) and acquired in 1912 Royal West India Mail Service (KWIM).

Wikipedia: Scheepvaarthuis (EN)

The Montelbaanstoren is a tower on bank of the Oudeschans – a canal in Amsterdam. The original tower was built in 1516 as part of the Walls of Amsterdam for the purpose of defending the city and the harbour. The top half, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, was extended to its current, decorative form in 1606. Since then the tower has been 48m tall.

Wikipedia: Montelbaanstoren (EN)

The Bredero monument is a work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Bredero-monument (NL)

Chinatown is the Chinese neighborhood of Amsterdam. The neighborhood is located around the Geldersekade and Zeedijk in the old city center (Amsterdam-Centrum).

Wikipedia: Chinatown (Amsterdam) (NL)

The Fo Guang Shan He Hua Temple of the Fo Guang Shan is a Buddhist temple at Zeedijk numbers 108 to 116, Amsterdam Chinatown in Amsterdam. The name is pronounced "gguh ggwaa", and means lotus flower in Chinese.

Wikipedia: He Hua Tempel (NL)

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder is a 17th-century canal house, house church, and museum in the city center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Catholic Church was built on the top three floors of the canal house during the 1660s. It is an important example of a "schuilkerk", or "clandestine church" in which Catholics and other religious dissenters from the seventeenth century Dutch Reformed Church, unable to worship in public, held services. The church has been open as a museum since 28 April 1888, and has 85,000 visitors annually.

Wikipedia: Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (EN)

The Oude Kerk is Amsterdam's oldest building and newest art institute. The building was founded about 1213 and consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht with Saint Nicolas as its patron saint. After the Reformation in 1578, it became a Calvinist church, which it remains today. It stands in De Wallen, now Amsterdam's main red-light district. The square surrounding the church is the Oudekerksplein.

Wikipedia: Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (EN), Website

Breastplate and The Caressed Breast are fictitious names of a relief in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Borstplaat (kunstwerk) (NL)

De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam. It consists of a network of alleys containing approximately 300 one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights and blacklight. Window prostitution is the most visible and typical kind of red-light district sex work in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: De Wallen (EN)

The Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum is a museum located in De Wallen, Amsterdam, Netherlands. According to the museum, more than two million visitors have visited the exhibition since it opened in 1985. Dedicated to cannabis and its many uses, the museum offers visitors information about the historical and modern uses of cannabis for medicinal, spiritual and cultural purposes. The museum also focuses on how hemp can be used for agricultural and industrial purposes, even including clothing accessories and cosmetic products made from hemp fiber. In 2012 the museum opened a second location in Barcelona, the Hash Marihuana Cáñamo & Hemp Museum.

Wikipedia: Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum (EN), Website

The Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010. The Amsterdam Canal District consists of the area around the city's four main canals: the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht, and the Prinsengracht. From the Brouwersgracht, the canals are generally parallel with one another, leading gradually southeast into the Amstel river.

Wikipedia: Grachtengordel (EN), Website

The National Monument on Dam Square is a 1956 cenotaph in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A national Remembrance of the Dead ceremony is held at the monument every year on 4 May to commemorate the casualties of World War II and subsequent armed conflicts.

Wikipedia: National Monument (Amsterdam) (EN)

The Rokin Fountain is a work of art in the shape of a fountain in the centre of Amsterdam. The work is part of the major redevelopment of the city centre under the name The Red Carpet.

Wikipedia: Rokinfontein (NL)

Madame Tussauds Amsterdam is a wax museum situated in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. It is located in the centre of the city on Dam Square, near the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. Founded in 1970, it was the first Madame Tussauds that was opened in mainland Europe as well as being the first foreign branch of the British institution. The collection of Madame Tussauds Amsterdam consists of a collection of wax figures of famous celebrities in different categories such as the Golden Age of Dutch history, music, sport and film.

Wikipedia: Madame Tussauds Amsterdam (EN), Website

De Papegaai is the lesser of the two parochial churches in the St Nicholas Roman Catholic parish in Amsterdam. The church is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. It is nicknamed "De Papegaai" because it was originally hidden in a garden behind a regular housefront that belonged to a bird-trader in the days when Catholicism could not be practised publicly. Today there is a narrow, Neo-Gothic facade flanked by statues of St Joseph and a perched parrot. The church is on the busy Kalverstraat just south of Dam Square, and invites people in for quiet, as well as celebrating Sunday Mass in Latin with Gregorian chant.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Amsterdam (EN), Website

De Negen Straatjes is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Grachtengordel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Negen Straatjes (EN)

The Nieuwe-Wercksbrug is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam. The bridge connects the Westermarkt with the Rozengracht. It spans the Prinsengracht near the Oude Wester.

Wikipedia: Nieuwe-Wercksbrug (NL)

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 persecuted because of their sexual orientation. Opened on 5 September 1987, it was the first monument in the world to commemorate gays and lesbians who were killed by the German Nazi regime.

Wikipedia: Homomonument (EN), Website

The Bartolotti House is a canal house at Herengracht 170-172 in Amsterdam. It was built around 1617 for Willem van den Heuvel tot Beichlingen, one of the richest Amsterdammers at the time, who had inherited a lot of money from a childless uncle by marriage, Giovanni Battista Bartolotti, a merchant from Bologna. In this uncle's will, it was stipulated that he had to call himself "Bartolotti". The name is sometimes also "From the Hill to Beichlingen Said Bartolotti". His mother Maria Pels (?-1592) married Willem Bartolotti in Stade in 1589. Her son Jan Baptist Bartolotti van den Heuvel (1590-1624) married Leonora Hellemans Arnoudsdochter (1594-1661) in 1612. In 1639, Jacoba Victoria, daughter of Guillelmo (1602-1658), was born in the house.

Wikipedia: Huis Bartolotti (NL), Website

Bridge 8 is the official designation of a bridge in the centre of Amsterdam. Until 5 July 2016, the bridge had the unofficial name Huiszitbrug, which referred to the Huiszitpakhuis. However, this name has been dropped.

Wikipedia: Brug 8 (NL)

Bridge 6 is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam. The road bridge connects the Paleisstraat with the Gasthuismolensteeg. In doing so, it spans the Singel. To the southeast of the bridge is the Bungehuis.

Wikipedia: Brug 6 (NL)

Amsterdam Ordnance Datum or Normaal Amsterdams Peil (NAP) is a vertical datum in use in large parts of Western Europe. Originally created for use in the Netherlands, its height was used by Prussia in 1879 for defining Normalnull, and in 1955 by other European countries. In the 1990s, it was used as the reference level for the United European leveling Network (UELN) which in turn led to the European Vertical Reference System (EVRS).

Wikipedia: Amsterdam Ordnance Datum (EN)

Dam Square or the Dam is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the best-known and most important locations in the city and the country.

Wikipedia: Dam Square (EN)

A plaque and thirty-two paving stones on Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam commemorate the victims of the Shooting on Dam Square on 7 May 1945.

Wikipedia: Monument voor Damslachtoffers 7 mei 1945 (NL), Website

The Nieuwe Kerk is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (EN), Website

The Monument to Annick van Hardeveld is a war memorial in the centre of Amsterdam. The monument in the form of a bluestone pedestal with a plaque is placed on the Hekelveld, in front of the building that bears house number 25. It was designed by the artist Hans Bayens.

Wikipedia: Monument voor Annick van Hardeveld (NL)