Free Historical Centre Tour Amsterdam

About the tour

Discover a city built on marshland seven centuries ago and which today has 150 canals and 1250 bridges. A city which is synonym of tolerance and freedom, where color, religion or background have no say in your social status. The city of tulips and bicycles. The city of free trade. The city with the tallest people in the world. The Venice of the North!

Learn about the amazing Dutch engineering, admired worldwide, and thanks to which the people who had lived in the Amstel river for over 4000 years, managed to turn a marshland into a city by building a great big dam, Amsteleredam was created, and all that happened as far back as the 12th Century! Walk through the canals which were dug in order to facilitate trade, so important to understand the business mentality of the Dutch.

Hear about the Golden Age, how the city focused on trade overseas, how the logistics worked making use of the canal network, meet the Tripp Brothers in front of their unique house-palace in the middle of the city, and walk through its over 4000 years of history, from its tribal beginnings, through when it became a city and then the most important trading harbor in the world, to today when it enjoys its status as one of the most iconic European capitals!