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Guide to Amsterdam

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Varied and colourful, lively and vibrant, Amsterdam has to offer something for everyone. The famous red-light district and streets with dozens of coffee shops, beauty perched channel and surrounding restaurants, hordes of bicyclists and bicycle highways, the house of Anne Frank and the wonderful museums.
Get now the Ultimate Travel Guide to Amsterdam and enjoy a great holiday with it.
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10 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • ec1d33b0e4has quoted6 years ago
    there, you can continue to admire the colourful landscape from the coffee-terrace to the park. Horus Botanica’s is about 850 meters from Rembrandt Square on the other bank of the Amstel River.
  • ec1d33b0e4has quoted6 years ago
    Beauty
    The plethora of canals surrounding the central city district with its more than 1,500 architectural monuments are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and date largely from the 17th-century gold for the Netherlands. Why do they call it "golden"? Thanks to its seafarers from a small fishing village as it was when it was founded in the late 12th century, Amsterdam and the whole of Holland became the world's busiest harbour, trading the most remote points of the geographic map. Trade pushes forward the development of the city in all other spheres - science, culture, art. Formed as a global financial centre, Amsterdam leaves important traces in the economic history of mankind. There have been born a number of prototypes of today's known concepts, such as the Central Bank, as the Bank of Amsterdam, the Stock Exchange (if not at times, it was certainly a leader), the first multinational - the Dutch East India Company. Well, the strenuous development and use of the new financial instruments inevitably gives rise to the first closest to today's speculative "balloons" and crises - just to remember the lameness, but this is another topic. Floating Flower Market (Blumenmarkt). Just from the tulip-traffic, we move on to the other emblematic Amsterdam attraction - the floating colour market on the Single Canal. As is well known, flowers and the Netherlands are inextricably linked and this is evident everywhere in Amsterdam and its beautiful colourful pavilions, where you can choose from an unprecedented number of varieties of tulips and other flowers, bulbs and seeds. If you happen to be in Amsterdam in the spring and have a good time, go to the town of Lises about 35 km and the incredible Kökkenhof garden called the Dutch Flower Garden. It is only open during the two months when the tulips bloom, whose number is ... about four and a half million! If you do not have the time to organize a trip outside the city, you can go to Horus Botanica’s - one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, founded in 1632. After exploring over 6,000 species of plants grown
  • ec1d33b0e4has quoted6 years ago
    the most popular places for connoisseurs of cultural and cognitive tourism: Historical Channels (Grachtengordel). Located in the form of concentric circles, they give the most distinctive nuance of the city's atmosphere, along with hundreds of romantic bridges and parked bikes around them. A boat trip, taken for example from the quay to the Central Station, will guide you through the most scenic canals like Single - the oldest and innermost canal - and allow you to get a first impression of urban architecture. You will also see popular and charming dwellings.
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