Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legend

Churches & Art
Nature
Water & Wind
Historical
Heritage & Space
Tourism
Paid Tours & Activities

Tour Facts

Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 9.6 km
Ascend 127 m
Descend 119 m

Experience Amsterdam in Netherlands in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Amsterdam

Sight 1: Haarlemmermeerstation

Show sight on map

The Haarlemmermeer station, called Willemspark Station until 1933, was built in 1915, with H. van Emmerik as architect, but originally designed by Karel de Bazel. The station is located on the Amstelveenseweg, corner Havenstraat. Until the arrival of the bus station of Maarse & Kroon, which replaced the train, there was a small park in front of the station.

Wikipedia: Station Amsterdam Haarlemmermeer (NL)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Sint-Agneskerk

Show sight on map

The Sint-Agneskerk in Amsterdam is a Catholic parish church, located on the corner of Amstelveenseweg 163 and Cornelis Krusemanstraat, on the Haarlemmermeer circuit and on the edge of the Willemspark neighborhood. The church, which is dedicated to the martyr Saint Agnes, was built between 1919 and 1932 to a design by architect Jan Stuyt and was designated a national monument in 1996. The Agnes was the first church in Amsterdam with a free-standing bell tower.

Wikipedia: Sint-Agneskerk (Amsterdam) (NL), Website

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: OCCII

Show sight on map

The OCCII is a venue for alternative and independent music at Amstelveenseweg 134, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wikipedia: OCCII (EN), Website

757 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Kosmos

Show sight on map

Kosmos is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Zuid, Vondelpark.

Wikipedia: Kosmos (Vondelpark) (NL)

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Figure découpée

Show sight on map

Figure découpée or L'oiseau is an abstract sculpture by Pablo Picasso: there are a total of three Figure découpée sculptures. There is one located in Vondelpark NL, another on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and another is in Helsingborg Sweden. The sculpture is a depiction of a bird, but it is commonly referred to as flat bird, flat fish or fish statue.

Wikipedia: Figure découpée (EN)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Vondelpark Open Air Theater

Show sight on map

Since 1974, the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre in Amsterdam has been organising concerts and performances by amateurs and professional performers in the field of cabaret, dance, children's shows and music in the heart of the Vondelpark. The performances are free of charge, but a free donation is requested.

Wikipedia: Vondelpark Openluchttheater (NL), Website

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Naked figure

Show sight on map

Nude Figure, also known as Girl or Standing Nude, is the title of a sculpture in Amsterdam's Vondelpark.

Wikipedia: Naaktfiguur (NL)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Mama Baranka (Moeder Rots)

Show sight on map

Mama Baranka is an artistic work of art in the Vondelpark in the south of Amsterdam, in memory of the death of Kerwin Duinmeijer. The sculpture is an initiative of Fundashon Antiano Amsterdam. The municipality of Amsterdam was prepared to contribute 75,000 guilders to the costs; the other half had to be raised by private individuals. The statue would eventually cost 120,000 guilders.

Wikipedia: Mama Baranka (NL), Website, Url

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Obrechtkerk

Show sight on map
Obrechtkerk De originele uploader was Tekstman op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia / Attribution

The Obrecht Church is the common name for the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid. The church is located on the Jacob Obrechtstraat.

Wikipedia: Obrechtkerk (NL), Website

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Concertgebouw

Show sight on map
Concertgebouw yisris / CC BY 2.0

The Royal Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston's Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (EN), Website

178 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Zigeunermonument - Hel en Vuur

Show sight on map
Zigeunermonument - Hel en Vuur Beeldhouwster Heleen Levano (Utrecht, 1941), Fotograaf Marius van Koulil (Breda, 1959) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Gypsy Monument Hell and Fire on Amsterdam's Museumplein is a bronze sculpture of a man, woman and two children fleeing from a blazing fire. The statue stands on a masonry pedestal and is 3.50 m high. The creator is sculptor Heleen Levano.

Wikipedia: Zigeunermonument Hel en vuur (NL)

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Ravensbrück memorial

Show sight on map

Women of Ravensbrück 1940-1945 is a monument on the Museumplein in Amsterdam in memory of the Dutch victims of the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrück in Germany.

Wikipedia: Vrouwen van Ravensbrück 1940-1945 (NL)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Museum Square

Show sight on map

Museumplein may refer to:Museumplein (Amsterdam), a square in the south of Amsterdam Parking garage Museumplein, a parking garage underneath this square Amsterdam Museumplein was a railway station that was planned to be the terminus of the Schiphol Line Place du Musée (Brussels), a square in Brussels on the Place Royale that includes the Palace of Charles of Lorraine and branches of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Museumplein (Ghent), a project in Ghent to replace the N60 between the two museums in the Citadel Park with a car-free square Plaza del Museo (Bilbao), a square in Bilbao Plaza del Museo (Seville), a square in Seville

Wikipedia: Museumplein (NL)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Show sight on map
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Moco Museum

Show sight on map

The Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary Museum) is an independent museum located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Barcelona, Spain, dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art. The museum was founded with the mission of attracting broader and younger audiences, and making art accessible to the public.

Wikipedia: Moco Museum (EN), Website

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Diamond Museum Amsterdam

Show sight on map

The Diamond Museum Amsterdam is a museum located at the Museumplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 2007 by Ben Meier of Coster Diamonds. The permanent collection consists of diamond jewelry and gives background information about diamonds.

Wikipedia: Diamond Museum Amsterdam (EN), Website

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Rijksmuseum

Show sight on map

The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.

Wikipedia: Rijksmuseum (EN), Website

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Rijksmuseumgebouw

Show sight on map
Rijksmuseumgebouw

The Rijksmuseum building in Amsterdam from 1885 houses the main part of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. It was specially designed for this purpose by the Dutch architect P.J.H. Cuypers. The building is owned by the State of the Netherlands and is managed by the Central Government Real Estate Agency.

Wikipedia: Rijksmuseumgebouw (NL)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: P.C. Hooft

Show sight on map

The Bust of P.C. Hooft is an artistic work of art in the south of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Borstbeeld P.C. Hooft (NL)

497 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Carel Willink

Show sight on map

Albert Carel Willink was a Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism".

Wikipedia: Carel Willink (EN)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 21: Kompas

Show sight on map

The compass is a work of art in the south of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Het kompas (NL)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Heineken Experience

Show sight on map

The Heineken Experience, located in Amsterdam, is a historic brewery and corporate visitor center for the internationally distributed Dutch pilsner, Heineken beer.

Wikipedia: Heineken Experience (EN), Website

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Zeelandbank

Show sight on map

Zeelandbank, officially Schouwse bank, is a work of art and street furniture in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Zeelandbank (NL)

465 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 24: Walenweeskinderen

Show sight on map

Walenweeskinderen is an artistic work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Walenweeskinderen (NL)

581 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: De Duif

Show sight on map

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.

Wikipedia: De Duif (EN), Website

819 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 26: De jonge Rembrandt

Show sight on map

(The) Young Rembrandt is a sculpture by Wim van Hoorn that can be found in four places in the world.

Wikipedia: Jonge Rembrandt (NL)

415 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 27: Capital C

Show sight on map

The Diamond Exchange is a former diamond exchange, located on the Weesperplein, corner Nieuwe Achtergracht, in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Diamantbeurs (Amsterdam) (NL)

1521 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 28: Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

Show sight on map
Canal Ring Area of AmsterdamSergey Galyonkin from Berlin, Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0

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

Share

Spread the word! Share this page with your friends and family.

Disclaimer Please be aware of your surroundings and do not enter private property. We are not liable for any damages that occur during the tours.

GPX-Download For navigation apps and GPS devices you can download the tour as a GPX file.