Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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11.8 km
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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: IJ-toren
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
Sight 2: The National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum
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.
Sight 11: Chinatown
Chinatown is the Chinese neighborhood of Amsterdam. The neighborhood is located around the Geldersekade and Zeedijk in the old city center (Amsterdam-Centrum).
Sight 12: Bredero
The Bredero monument is a work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.
Sight 13: Fo Guang Sha He Hua Temple
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.
Sight 14: Borstplaat
Breastplate and The Caressed Breast are fictitious names of a relief in the centre of Amsterdam.
Sight 15: Red Light District
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.
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: Dam Square
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.
Sight 18: Heilig Hartbeeld
The Sacred Heart statue is a statue in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Sight 19: English Reformed Church
The English Reformed Church is one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated in the centre of the city. It is home to an English-speaking congregation which is affiliated to the Church of Scotland and to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
Sight 20: Houten Huis
The Houten Huys is a building on the Begijnhof in Amsterdam dating from 1528 or shortly thereafter. It is one of the oldest houses in Amsterdam and, next to a building at the beginning of the Zeedijk, one of the two remaining houses with a wooden façade of Amsterdam.
Sight 21: 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 22: 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 23: Sint-Franciscus Xaveriuskerk
De Krijtberg Kerk is a Roman Catholic church in Amsterdam, located at the Singel. The church was designed by Alfred Tepe and was opened in 1883. The exuberant interior was made by Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg.
Sight 24: Cromhouthuis
The Cromhouthuis is a patrician house and one of the Cromhouthuizen on Herengracht in Amsterdam. Until 2020, the house housed the Biblical Museum and an annex of the Amsterdam Museum. The building was taken over by Stadsherstel that year.
Sight 25: Nine Streets
De Negen Straatjes is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Grachtengordel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sight 26: Felix Meritis
Felix Meritis is the name of an intellectual society in Amsterdam, but subsequently used for the building they built for themselves on the Keizersgracht.
Sight 27: Huis Marseille
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest photography museum in Amsterdam, opened in 1999. Huis Marseille was the first photography museum in the Netherlands when it opened in 1999; the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Fotomuseum Den Haag in The Hague, and FOAM in a nearby building have opened since. The museum is housed in a residence built around 1665 for a French merchant, and contains 13 exhibition spaces and a restored room in Louis XIV style; the building was restored and the museum extended into the adjacent building in 2007–2013.
Wikipedia: Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography (EN), Website
Sight 28: 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 29: De Hallen
De Hallen is a cultural centre in the Kinkerbuurt in Amsterdam-West, with a library, theatre, cinema, restaurants, TV studios and crafts centre. The centre is located in the former Tollensstraat depot of the Amsterdam Municipal Tram, built in 1902-'05 and was used by the Amsterdam Municipal Transport Company until 1996, after which the buildings were still in use by various tenants, including the Amsterdam Public Transport Museum until 2005. The complex is located between Kinkerstraat, Bilderdijkkade, Bellamyplein and Ten Katestraat.
Sight 30: De droom van een hond
A dog's dream is a mosaic in Amsterdam-West.
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