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It&s all too easy to eat your way around the world in Amsterdam. Tuck into Turkish delights in a cosy restaurant, sip a stout and sup some home-made stew in an Irish pub, or get a south of the border taste in a Mexican cantina. If you really want to treat the tastebuds to something…
Diamond cutting is another major industry of Amsterdam, and here no one disputes that the Dutch are the most skilled diamond cutters in the world. They’re also the most friendly, and offer free tours of their diamond cutting factories, regardless of whether you plan to purchase a diamond at the end of the tour. Although…
Next: a free tour on which you’ll receive food and drink-and one that you should take. For while the citizens of such countries as Germany or Denmark will argue loud and long over whether Holland produces the world’s best beer, no one will dispute that Amsterdam offers the best free brewery tours in Europe! In…
Our Lord in the Attic Church (Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder) is the world’s most unusual church, a product of that Reformation period in the 1600s when Catholic worship was in disfavor in Amsterdam, but still tolerated and connived at by the civic authorities. The compromise they reached was a semi-clandestine form of Catholic services,…
Within easy walking distance of the Rijksmuseum is the second great gallery of Amsterdam, which occupies a position in modern art that is akin to the status of the Rijksmuseum in classic art; indeed, with the possible exception of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I know no other museum of modern art…
Especially to that morning, when I, on the threshold of life, visited the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam and there “discovered” Johannes Vermeer. The image of the Master which rose up before me then excelling everything and everyone, still stands clearly before me. It has not changed in spite of many different trends which since then have…
The Rijksmuseum is certainly one of the greatest (if not the greatest) art museums in the world. It was originally housed on the upper floors of the Royal Palace on the Dam Square, was then transferred to the Trippenhuis on the Kloveniersburgwal in 1818, but then, in 1885, acquired its own home in this massive…