This beautiful green place is almost four hundred years old and was built as a nursery garden for herbs for pharmacists and doctors in the city.
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 …
“In Amsterdam people are the happiest in the world, They all live in beautiful palaces on the canals,” I once heard a tourist say, “Can you imagine going to your work every day by bike, and having a boat on the water to enjoy whenever you want to? Aren’t they lucky!” Well, do …
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 …
