Amsterdam

Netherlands · 6 collections · 50 locations

Everything in Amsterdam is ten minutes away by bike and still easy to miss. These maps are the directions a friend gives you on the second day, once you have seen the canals and want to know where people actually go.

Places in Amsterdam

Collections in Amsterdam

  • Amsterdam's street markets — In 1910 the city licensed four streets for vending, and the Albert Cuypstraat, Dapperstraat, Ten Katestraat and Lindengracht are still trad…
  • Amsterdam's indoor swimming pools — Amsterdam swims indoors for most of the year, and the city's covered pools are not interchangeable: one is a 1912 conversion of a cycling s…
  • Amsterdam School buildings — Between about 1910 and 1930, Amsterdam's housing associations and municipal building service handed their commissions to a group of archite…
  • Amsterdam's kinderboerderijen — A kinderboerderij is a small neighbourhood farm with goats, rabbits and chickens behind a low fence. Amsterdam has them from Osdorp in the…
  • Amsterdam's brown cafés — A bruin café is defined less by its menu than by what nobody has changed: dark panelling, sawdust on the floor, jenever poured to the brim…
  • Amsterdam venues holding a 24 hour licence — The city began issuing round-the-clock permits in 2013 on the condition that the rooms sit away from the residential centre and run a cultu…

Subjects: Food & Drink, Nightlife, Markets, Culture & History, Sports & Recreation, Kids & Family.

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