Tips 1 - 10 of 22 Amsterdam Things to Do
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The Heineken Experience. For 5 €uro you can see all about the beer, its ingredients and how it is made. There is an exiting ´bottle ride´, where you can feel how it is to be a Heineken bottle. And you get 3 beers, or sodas, and a free gift when you leave. Absolutely value for your money.
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Address: Stadhouderskade
Directions: the old Heineken factory.
Website: http://www.heinekenexperience.nl/
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This museum tells you everything about the history of this city. It is located in a former city orphanage. The monumental entrance gate is already an attraction on itself.
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Phone: +31-20-5231822
Address: Kalverstraat 92
Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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The Amsterdam Historical museum has a Civic Guard Gallery with some great painting in Rembrandts Nightwatch style . And the best thing is you can walk through this gallery for free.
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Phone: +31-20-5231822
Address: Kalverstraat 92
Directions: Walk under the entrance gate in the Kalverstraat and the gallery will appear on your left.
Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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The Amsterdam historic museum is located in the former city orphanage. The museum is worth visiting, but will cost you 6 Euro. A small part is dedicated to the city orphanage and is free.... It are three rooms, on eroom will show what the orphans looked like, the second room is the regents room, and behind that is the third room dedicated to van Speyk. He is a dutch hero, who blew himself and his ship up to prevent the enemie from capturing them. Van Speyk was a former Amsterdam orphanage boy. You can reach these rooms by going into the museum and instead of going left to the cassier go right straight into the rooms.
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Phone: +31-20-5231822
Address: Kalverstraat 92
Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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Things To Do: Amsterdam for free: de papegaai
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Walking in the busy Kalverstraat with shops of all kinds you will find a church that advertises with the slogan: a quarter of an hour for God. This church is called the papegaai and is worth visiting. In 1578 the churches from Amsterdam are turned from catholic churches to reformed churches. In houses and other non striking buildings catholic churches were hidden. This houses often had a stone in the facade by which the house was known, because they didn´t have a good adres system. The stone of this house was a parrot (papegaai in dutch). The neogothic church which you see today was built in 1848 but still is known by the name of the parrot. The church is open from 10:00 daily. For everybody to have their 15 minutes with God.
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Phone: +31 20 623 18 89
Address: Kalverstraat 58
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Things To Do: Amsterdam for free: cigarshop / museum
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In 1826 Pantaleon Gerhard Hajenius opened his cigar shop. The shop is located on the Rokin since 1915 and has not changed since then. Inside is also a small cigarmuseum. The entrance is free !! Opening times: Monday 12.00 am - 6.00 pm Tuesday - Saturday 9.30 am - 6.00 pm Sunday 12.00 am - 5.00 pm
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Phone: +31 (0)20-623 74 94
Address: Rokin 92 - 96
Website: http://www.hajenius.com
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The Amsterdam Centraal Station is built between 1882 and 1889. In 1876 architect P.J.H. Cuypers got the assignment to design it. A.L. van Gendt helped him with his experience in railroad design. The station was built on 3 specially made islands in the harbour. The building is 306 meter long and 30 meter deep. The facade is dominated by two towers. Both have a clock and when we visited during the meeting in march somebody noticed that one clock was running in the wrong direction. it was going from 6 to 3. But when we got closer it turned out to be the wind direction that was shifting from south to east. The other one was the clock........ You can see a picture of the entire building at our transportation tips.
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Website: http://www.ns.nl
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The name of this bridge is Blauwbrug (blue bridge). The former wooden bridge (±1600)here was painted blue. The bridge dates back to 1884. It is a design of W.H. Springer and B. de Greef. It is a monumental steady plate bridge with three passages. The pilars are made from bricks and natural stone in the form of shipbows with marble pilars on top. The balustrade is made of natural stone. In 1999 the bridge was restored.
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Address: Amstelstraat crossing the Amstel
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The Magere brug (skinny bridge) is one of the most famous bridges in Amsterdam. It is a wooden double liftbridge with 9 passages with 20th century origin. The name refers to an older bridge here that was narrow, or skinny. This bridge dated back to 1691. In 1871 this bridge was demolished because it was a ruin. The next bridge was a wooden bridge that hold for 50 years. It was then thought there should be a modern stone bridge here, but government made other decissions. The bridge was rebuilt to look like the old one. Untill 1994 it was manually opened, but legislation made an end to this. The manual labour was too heavy.
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Address: Kerkstraat over the river Amstel
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Espo411 Wed Jun 10, 2009 21:19 UTC
Been coming to the Mooy since 1997. One of my favorite little places in A'dam. Love the location, the atmosphere & the staff. Small, but has a pool table & very few tourists...NICE! | joeaitken Wed Oct 3, 2007 21:31 UTC
I did not specify that Cafe Mooy was the bar I was referring too. Joe and Janet Aitken ( now from TN.) | jo104 Fri Sep 15, 2006 15:06 UTC
Great tips I love Amsterdam & there is always something more to see every visit :-) hope you have a lovely birthday | Nemorino Wed Apr 19, 2006 19:19 UTC
Interesting travelogues and tips. I'm looking forward to visiting Amsterdam soon. |
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