This building with its large courtyard and attractive garden, Het Amstelhof, was until about 20 years ago used as a home for elderly Amsterdammers. Today, part of the collection of the famous museum The Hermitage of St. Petersburg in Russia is on display. Some paintings …
If diamond is the hardest stone there is, how do you cut it into a beautiful shiny jewel? With diamond (powder)! Amsterdam was and is a real diamond city. Everywhere in the old Jewish quarter there were large and smaller polishing factories and shops where the …
Rembrandt van Rijn lived and worked in this house. The museum’s collection consists of many sketches and drawings: the studies for Rembrandt’s masterpieces.
This park, which runs from the centre to the ring road between Zuid (The South) and West, can rightly be called the garden of Amsterdam. It’s not only very popular among Amsterdammers, as a place to walk, have a picnic, ride their bike or go for a healthy run, and tourists, it is also …
Of all the merchants in the 17th century, one was the richest. Where most of them owned one ship with which to import valuable goods, this man had ten. With the wealth he earned, the merchant had beautiful paintings and statues made in his image and bought the most expensive furniture made of …
