Amsterdam THEN Amsterdam NOW

What will we visit on this tour?

• Meeting point:

  Dam 2118, 1012 LP Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Dam 2118, 1012 LP Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Dam Square across the street of Madame Tussauds ( RED ☂️ VIEW PHOTO )

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Dam 2118, 1012 LP Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• 1
  Outside visit

  Royal Palace Amsterdam

  In the middle of the capital stands the Royal Palace Amsterdam, King Willem-Alexander’s official reception palace. The Palace is the largest and most prestigious building from the Golden Age, making it one of the Netherlands’ most important monuments. It was originally built, not as a palace, but as Amsterdam’s town hall. Architect Jan van Campen designed a building which would reflect the power and wealth of Amsterdam in the 17th century.

• 2
  Outside visit

  Beursplein

  The Beurs van Berlage, the Beursplein and the Bijenkorf are in line with each other in the former river bed of the Amstel. The square was built at the end of the 19th century, after the damping (in 1845 and in 1883) of a part of the Damrak, near the Dam.

• 3
  Outside visit

  Oude Kerk

  The Oude Kerk (English: Old Church) is Amsterdam’s oldest building and newest art institute (since 2012). 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.

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• 4
  Outside visit

  Red Light District Amsterdam Centrum

  De Wallen, Amsterdam's red-light district, is internationally known and one of the main tourist attractions of the city.

• 5
  Outside visit

  Chinatown

  The Amsterdam Chinatown area consists of a number of city blocks crammed with Asian markets, restaurants and shops. The most important tourist sight within Amsterdam's Chinatown is without doubt the Zeedijk Buddhist temple, known as Fo Guang Shan He Hua. This impressive building, with its brightly coloured walls and distinctive Chinese roof, is the largest Chinese style Buddhist temple in Europe and has stood here since 2000.

• 6
  Outside visit

  Nieuwmarkt

  The New Market Square (Nieuwmarkt) has been an Amsterdam market since the 17th Century, when farmers would come here to sell produce from their plots at the square just inside St. Anthony's Gate. Over the centuries, the layout of the city has changed such that Nieuwmarket is no longer at the edge of the city limits. St. Anthony’s Gate has also changed a lot, with the gatehouse, the picturesque building known as De Waag, being previously a weight house, medical college and now a restaurant.

• 7
  Outside visit

  Salon de Thé (The Smallest House in Amsterdam)

  built around 1600 at Oude Hoogstraat. It stands at a minuscule 2.02 metres wide and only 5 metres deep, with just one small room on each floor, which must have made living in it extremely impractical. Today, the house is open to the public as ‘the smallest tea room in Amsterdam’.

• 8
  Outside visit

  VOC dutch east indie Compangie

  The Oost-Indisch Huis (Dutch for "East India House") is an early 17th-century building in the centre of Amsterdam. It was the headquarters of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC). It is a listed Dutch national heritage site (rijksmonument).

• 9
  Outside visit

  Rembrandtplein

  Rembrandtplein is one of the busiest squares in the city of Amsterdam. At least when it comes to nightlife and clubbing. In the Middle Ages the site held a gateway into the city. By the 17th century, it was known as The Butter Market because farmers would sell thair dairy and poultry products here.

• 10
  Outside visit

  Tuschinski Theater

  The theater was founded by Abraham Tuschinski, together with his brothers-in-law Hermann Gerschtanowitz and Hermann Ehrlich. Tuschinski at the time already operated four theaters in Rotterdam and wanted to open a theater in Amsterdam of worldclass. Construction started on 18 June 1919, the theater was built in Art Deco, Jugendstil and the Amsterdams School style

• 11
  Outside visit

  Muntplein

  Originally park of the city wall, this tower was rebuild in 1620 and features a carillon with bells. End stop