Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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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.
Activities in AmsterdamIndividual Sights in AmsterdamSight 1: De hongerwinter
The Hunger Winter is a war memorial on the Eastern Islands in the centre of Amsterdam. It deals with the hunger winter of 1944/1945.
Sight 2: Entrepotdok
The Entrepotdok, formerly Nieuwe Rapenburgergracht, is a canal in Amsterdam, and a street and row of former warehouses with the same name along the northeast side of the canal. They were constructed between 1708 and 1829, used for storage, squatted in the 1990s and are now converted into apartments. Entrepotdok is the largest inhabited warehouse complex in Amsterdam. The canal runs between the Kadijksplein and Sarphatistraat, and is parallel to Hoogte Kadijk, Laagte Kadijk, Plantage Doklaan and Natura Artis Magistra zoo.
Sight 3: Hortus Botanicus
Hortus Botanicus is a botanical garden in the Plantage district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is one of the world's oldest botanical gardens.
Sight 4: Hortusplantsoen
The Hortusplantsoen is a park and street in the center of Amsterdam. The park is located on the south side of the Hortus Botanicus, between the Nieuwe Herengracht and the Nieuwe Keizersgracht. In the Hortus tunnel under the Weesperstraat, which belongs to the Nieuwe Herengracht, there is an entrance to the Waterlooplein metro station.
Sight 5: De werken van barmhartigheid
The Works of Mercy is a sculpture group in the centre of Amsterdam.
Sight 6: Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument
The National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (Dutch: Holocaust Namenmonument) is since 2021 the Dutch national memorial for the Holocaust and the Porajmos at Amsterdam. It commemorates the approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands who were arrested by the Nazi regime during the German occupation of the country (1940-1945), deported and mostly murdered in the Auschwitz and Sobibor death camps, as well as 220 Roma and Sinti victims.
Wikipedia: National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (EN), Website
Sight 7: Fete galante
Fête galante is a sculpture by Hans van den Ban from 1997, which is placed along the Weesperstraat and Nieuwe Kerkstraat in Amsterdam-Centrum. The title is said to refer to the term 'painting', in which pleasure is the main element. The playfulness was necessary because of the sleek housing and office blocks that arose here after a thorough redevelopment of the neighborhood. Initially, a row of trees was to be built here, but in the end it was not placed.
Sight 8: Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum in Amsterdam is a museum that highlights Jewish culture, religion, and history. Since 1987, the museum has been located on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in the heart of the old Jewish Quarter. The covered space between four synagogues restored to their 18th-century state forms the entrance at Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1. The museum is part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.
Sight 9: De Dokwerker
The Dockworker is a statue and monument on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam in memory of the February strike of 1941.
Sight 10: Huis De Pinto
Huis De Pinto is a former Amsterdam city mansion on the Sint Antoniesbreestraat near the Rembrandthuis. It was originally built in 1605 and is named after a leading Amsterdam family dynasty of Portuguese-Jewish merchant bankers. The founder of this dynasty was Isaack de Pinto, from Antwerp, who bought the house in 1651. His son commissioned the unusual facade, and his grandson Isaac de Pinto grew up there.
Sight 11: Jewish WW2 resistance memorial
The Monument Jewish Resistance 1940-1945 is a monument in Amsterdam that has stood since 1988 on the corner of the Amstel and the Zwanenburgwal, on the side of the Stopera. It was erected in memory of all Jewish resistance fighters who died in the Second World War.
Sight 12: Collectie Six
The Six Collection is the common name for the Six family's patrimony, which, in addition to family portraits, includes the family archive and art and antiques relating to the family. The Six Foundation, the Stella Duce Foundation, the Jan Six Foundation and the Amstel 218 Foundation together form the Six Collection.
Sight 13: Willet-Holthuysen
Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a located on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam famous ring of canals is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Sight 14: De Kleine Komedie
De Kleine Komedie is today the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, dating from 1788. Situated on the Amstel near the Halvemaansteeg, the building offers a stage for both upcoming and established Dutch talents. The theatre has 503 seats.
Sight 15: Church of England
Christ Church in Amsterdam is a former cloth hall on the Groenburgwal that has been converted into an Anglican church. It is one of the first, possibly the first, buildings in the Netherlands in the style of the neo-Gothic style. The building was registered in the monument register on 28 April 1970.
Sight 16: Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam
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.
Sight 17: Huis aan 3 grachten
The Huis aan de Drie Grachten or Huis op de Drie Grachten is a 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam, at the southeastern end of the Wallen district. The name is a reference to the fact that the building faces three different Amsterdam canals. The south facade faces Grimburgwal, the west facade faces Oudezijds Voorburgwal and the east facade faces Oudezijds Achterburgwal. The address is Oudezijds Voorburgwal 249.
Sight 18: cats museum
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, Ed van der Elsken and Jože Ciuha, among others.
Sight 19: FOAM
Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary, art and fashion. Next to large exhibitions by well-known photographers, Foam also shows the work of young and upcoming photographers, in shorter running exhibitions.
Sight 20: Keizersgrachtkerk
The Keizersgracht Church is a Reformed Church from 1888 on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. The building at number 566 was designed by the architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Salm and Abraham Salm.
Sight 21: Deutzenhofje
The Deutzen Hofje or Deutzenhofje is a 17th-century hofje on the Prinsengracht 857 in Amsterdam. It is the largest hofje built in the 17th century.
Sight 22: P.C. Hooft
The Bust of P.C. Hooft is an artistic work of art in the south of Amsterdam.
Sight 23: Gedenksteen
The Memorial Stone for the former House of Detention, also known as the 4 May Memorial Stone, is a work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.
Wikipedia: Gedenksteen voor het voormalig Huis van Bewaring (NL)
Sight 24: De Balie
De Balie is a Dutch organization that produces independent journalistic programs about art, culture and politics. De Balie is located at Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam.
Sight 25: DeLaMar
DeLaMar is a theatre near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with two auditoriums containing 601 and 939 seats. It is currently in use for musicals, plays and cabaret.
Sight 26: Zagertje
The Tree Sawyer, or The Sawyer, is a small inconspicuous sculpture in the Leidsebosje in Amsterdam. The sculpture consists of a male sawing in a thick overhanging branch; Until October 2019, he did so in the southernmost plane tree. He does so bending over, between his legs.
Sight 27: Dutch Equestrian School Museum Hollandsche Manege
The Hollandsche Manege in Amsterdam is the oldest riding school in the Netherlands, dating back to 1744. The current building, inspired by the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, was constructed in 1882.
Sight 28: Figure découpée
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.
Sight 29: Oprichtersbank
The Jubilee Bank Vondelpark or Founder's Bank is applied art in the Vondelpark in the south of Amsterdam.
Sight 30: Cascade
Cascade or Écriture sur l'eau is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Zuid, Vondelpark.
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