Amsterdam's street markets

Map of 7 locations in Amsterdam, Netherlands

In 1910 the city licensed four streets for vending, and the Albert Cuypstraat, Dapperstraat, Ten Katestraat and Lindengracht are still trading on the same asphalt a century later. The rest of Amsterdam's market map grew sideways from that: squares that take flowers on Monday and junk on Saturday, organic growers who get one morning a week, flea pitches that outlasted the building they were pitched against. Listed here with the days they actually work, because a market with the wrong day attached is worse than no market at all.

Places in this collection

  • Amstelveld — Monday is flowers and plants on this pedestrian square behind the Amstelkerk, the surviving half of a pair of plant markets that once ran a…
  • Lindengracht — One of the four streets licensed for vending in 1910, and the only one of them that never became a daily market: the Lindengracht trades on…
  • Nieuwmarkt — Three market listings sit on one square: an organic market, a general dagmarkt, and an antiques and curiosities market that runs on Sundays…
  • Noordermarkt — Two different markets share the square beside the Noorderkerk in the Jordaan. Saturday is the boerenmarkt, a farmers' and regional-produce…
  • Ten Katemarkt — The Ten Katestraat in the Kinkerbuurt, Oud-West, was named a licensed vending street in 1910 in the same decision that created the Albert C…
  • Waterloopleinmarkt — The city tourist board puts this and the Albert Cuypmarkt in the same sentence as Amsterdam's two best-known markets, and everything else i…
  • Dappermarkt — Runs the length of the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam-Oost, bounded by the Wijttenbachstraat and the Mauritskade and cut across by the Eerste va…

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