Tourism in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a water city. To appreciate the flavor of Shuicheng, you must take a sightseeing cruise in Amsterdam. It is more appropriate for a cruise ship to cruise the canal for an hour during the day. From Amsterdam Central Railway Station, sightseeing boats of each route run every 15-30 minutes. Walking in the street on a boat can often find scenery that you haven't noticed. It is quite convenient to use the museum cruise ship when visiting the museum. This route visits major museums in the city, and you can get on and off the ship at any time. Visitors who have confidence in their physical strength might as well try to visit the canal by boat. At night in Amsterdam, lights will light up along the canal and on the bridge, which is full of romance.

Amsterdam is surrounded by canals. You might as well rent a boat or take a cruise first. If you like cosmopolitan flavor, you can also start from the center of Amsterdam, take Dam Avenue as the starting point, and visit palaces, new churches, national monuments and Madame Tussauds one after another along Dam Avenue. You can also choose the "Tower of Tears" on Prins Hendrikkade Street as the starting point for visiting the old city, and visit the Ames Green Museum and the old church in turn along the river. The narrow strip extending from the old church to the north and south is the famous "red light district". As soon as the light is on, the red light district is crowded with people who can't finish watching it. The more you watch it, the crazier it becomes.

Of course, you can't miss the opportunity of "talking to the master across time and space" and have an artistic journey across time and space with Van Gogh, Lyngbrant and hals. Amsterdam has more than 60 art galleries and museums. Most of them are concentrated in museum square. Including the National Museum, which collects Rembrandt's The Night's Watch and works by Vermeer, other famous Dutch painters in the 7th century, the National Van Gogh Art Museum, which has the largest collection of Van Gogh's works in the world, and the municipal museum, which collects works by famous impressionist painters such as Gauguin and Picasso. Besides, what museum square should not miss is the National Concert Hall, which is called the palace of classical music. It is also the base of Amsterdam National Orchestra, which was built in 1888. There is a golden harp on the roof of this white building. Its sound effect is excellent, ranking third in the world. Tickets are very low, so anyone can easily go in and enjoy classical music. You can also enjoy the lunch concert for free every Wednesday at noon, so you may as well listen to it easily.

When you are tired, you can go to a nearby cafe to have a rest and enjoy Dutch-style leisure. The downtown with Dom Square as the center is the most prosperous place in the whole city, and the world-famous red light district is not far away. 1994, Amsterdam and Beijing are sister cities.

Amsterdam looks old and full of flavor. The small buildings on the third and fourth floors are carefully decorated in blue-green and red, which is as lovely as fake. The doors of these toy-like buildings are so narrow that only one person can walk in. In ancient times, there was a strange law. The bigger the door, the more tax you pay. Helpless people had to make the door as small as possible, but made the window very big, and all the furniture was hung in and out from the window. At the top of all the small buildings, there are several protruding iron hooks to fix the ropes used to lift objects.

Dense waterways separate these lovely streets, and flocks of seagulls fly in waterways and buildings, bullying ducks foraging in the water, just like Venice in the north.

The water level of the canal is almost the same as that of the street, and there is a boat house moored on the shore, which is a scene of Amsterdam boat house. The owners of these boathouses are mostly artists and writers, and there are some romantic young people.

Take a cruise along the canal through the streets of Amsterdam, and you will see ancient and quiet streets, quaint buildings, colorful trams, bridges of various shapes, green seawater, beautiful boathouses, attractive water restaurants, water bars and water cafes.

Windmills, wooden shoes, canals, bridges, boathouses, pirates, beautiful buildings, attractive tulips and pastoral songs all constitute a beautiful fairy tale world! But Holland also has a lot of absolutely adult things.

In Amsterdam, there are not many cafes and teahouses, but more bars. Bar scale is generally very small, no more than 20 square meters, a bar,

A few bar stools, a few small tables, and the inside of the bar can be clearly seen through the huge glass window. Some drinkers sit at the bar, some at small tables, and some stand together in twos and threes, talking loudly, laughing and clapping. Jazz is deafening and completely relaxed. These bars can put tables and stools along the street, attracting many pedestrians to stop. Accidentality, freedom and tolerance are adjectives that people often think of when they mention Amsterdam. For centuries, Amsterdam has been like a magnet, attracting persecuted people from European countries to seek asylum, especially Jews or pagans from France or other Catholic countries. Amsterdam people believe in Catholicism and Protestantism successively, and it has always been a melting pot of different nationalities. Due to rich experience in dealing with foreign countries and frequent trade, Amsterdam people have long had a cosmopolitan temperament. For hundreds of years, time has given the Dutch a broader mind, and at the same time it has formed a great tradition of tolerance for heresy. Therefore, Amsterdam is very attractive to many strangers, immigrants and intellectuals, and everyone is eager to join this fascinating and diverse world. Some people compare Amsterdam to Noah's Ark for asylum seekers.

Drugs are absolutely banned all over the world, but only the Netherlands allows a small amount of marijuana and other drugs to be smoked in specific places. If you see a coffee shop with a leaf sign on the street, don't think it is a restaurant or a coffee shop. It's a legal coffee shop. You can take drugs, but the number of cigarettes you can smoke is limited. At the same time, don't smoke cigarettes sold to you by strangers! The canal in Amsterdam

Amsterdam and Amsterdam's canals are water cities with criss-crossing river networks and criss-crossing rivers. There are 165 canals excavated or repaired manually.

There are more than 2000 "boathouses" parked on the river. Although it is a boathouse, it is fully equipped. Only by taking a glass boat tour of Amsterdam can you truly appreciate the unique charm of Shuicheng. The cruise ship crosses the famous river, and the two sides are typical Dutch traditional residential buildings. The feature is that the front and windows of the house are slender, because the property tax was levied according to the area of the facade at that time, and the shrewd Dutch tried to reduce the front area as much as possible in order to save taxes. Because the facade is narrow, the decoration idea is placed on the gable of the roof. If you look closely, you will find that each gable is different. Because the door is narrow and large furniture items need to enter through the window, there are prominent hooks in the room. The famous canals in Amsterdam include the Emperor Canal, the Prince Canal and the Gentleman Canal. Walking slowly along the canal, you can get a comprehensive understanding of various historical buildings in this city. The canal area here was built in the17th century, with 160 canals, 75 kilometers long, and is the anchorage of 2500 housing ships. Street view of canals of amsterdam: The houses near canals of amsterdam, the Netherlands, were built in the middle of17th century, mostly red brick buildings with exquisite and elegant stepped spires. There are many bars, restaurants and gift shops along the canal. Handicraft shops are full of clogs and windmills. Some storefronts are also decorated with windmills. The reclaimed "underwater city" drained the water in the dam with a windmill. Windmills create land for the Netherlands, so the Netherlands is also called "the country of windmills".

Daba square

Dam Square, the central square of Amsterdam. Because the first dam on the Amster River was built here in 1270.

Named after this. The White National Monument in the center of the square was built at 1956 to commemorate the victims of World War II. Opposite is the Dutch Palace. Next to it is the cathedral, where the Dutch king was crowned and enthroned. The area around the square is the bustling business district of Amsterdam.

Royal Palace, Dam

(Koninklijk Paleis) is the quintessence of the golden age of Holland in17th century. Originally a city hall, 1648 started construction, and the foundation 13659 pile. When Napoleon occupied France, it was used as the palace of Napoleon's brothers. 18 13 returned to the municipal government. 1935 is owned by the royal family. Now it's the Royal Guest House.

Madame Tussauds Wax Museum is on the left side of the palace. It is a branch of the British Wax Museum. Madame Toussaint first built a wax museum in London, England. Now we have branches in new york, Las Vegas and Hongkong. It mainly displays wax figures of celebrities.

National Museum

The National Museum has a collection of paintings from the Golden Age in the Netherlands. Almost all Rembrandt's peak works are collected here. In addition, there are precious sculptures, pottery, furniture, gold, silver and glass treasures from all over the world. Many treasures are cultural relics from China.

Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum has more than 200 oil paintings and more than 600 paintings by the famous Dutch painter Van Gogh (Van Gogh 1853- 1890). In addition, there are works by impressionist masters Monet and Gauguin.

The Van Gogh Museum is near the Kauste Diamond Factory. Tickets to Van Gogh Museum are very expensive, and there are many masterpieces of Van Gogh, such as Sunflowers and Poppies, self-portraits with and without ears, and four oil paintings he made in the last year of his life. But not all the works, the incomparable Starry Night, are not here. Many other people's paintings are also displayed in the museum, all of which are masterpieces of the "Dutch painting school" in history.

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Anne Frank's House, 1942 During World War II, Anne, a German Jewish girl, hid in this secret room for two years to escape the Nazi Holocaust. He wrote the famous Het Achterhuis, which is the best-selling diary in the world. It tells the story of the little author's family and relatives hiding in the attic to avoid the Nazis during World War II. This diary has been translated into 55 languages, with a total sales volume of over 25 million copies.

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The Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum, built by the Canal Port, was once the arsenal of the Dutch navy. The museum shows the historical materials of navigation and colonization in the golden age of the Netherlands. Outside is the original replica of the Dutch East India Company sailing boat "Amsterdam". The scenes arranged on the ship let tourists know the scenes of sailing life at that time.

Diamond processing factory

Diamond processing factory, diamond processing industry was introduced into Holland in16th century and gradually developed into a world-famous diamond processing center. The famous diamond processing plants in Amsterdam are all open to tourists, and professionals introduce the diamond processing flow and identification method. And you can buy pure diamond jewelry in the attached store. The main diamond processing plants in this city are Gassan Diamond Company, Van Moppes Diamond Company and Coster Diamond Company.

Heineken brewery

Founded in 1864, Heineken is an internationally renowned beer brand. Visiting the brewery can help you understand the development history and production technology of Heineken beer, and it is possible to taste fresh and pure Heineken beer.

Zandanfengche village

De Zaanse Schans, a famous folk park in the Netherlands. More than ten kilometers from Amsterdam. There are three wooden windmills in the village, and more than a dozen traditional Dutch wooden buildings are patchwork, showing the traditional Dutch folk culture. There are live performances of Dutch wooden shoes, blue and white porcelain and cheese making process, as well as souvenirs with Dutch characteristics for sale.

Maken

Macon, the most Dutch village. It used to be an island, and the dam built by 1957 turned the island into a peninsula. The town is full of narrow alleys and green wooden houses. Nowadays, women in the town often wear traditional Dutch clothes.

Volendan

Wallendam is located in the north of Amsterdam 12km, which is a typical fishing village in the Netherlands.

Folk Village

Folk Village: The tourism industry in the Netherlands is very developed, and Amsterdam alone receives millions of tourists from all over the world every year. World-famous Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, cheese and so on. It is a few folk customs that attract tourists. In order to meet the needs of tourists from all over the world, the Dutch built a folk village near Amsterdam, which was welcomed by tourists. The poorer the family, the narrower the house.

Historically, the rich in Amsterdam first built spacious and luxurious houses by the canal in the city center. So the middle class had to build a slightly smaller house on the other side of the canal. After the house was built, they opened a gentleman's canal along the house. People with less money have to live across the middle class canal and build narrower houses on the other side of the gentleman's canal. As a result, the poor had to build their houses on the other side of the third canal, the Emperor Canal. Therefore, it is very interesting that the width of the house changes correspondingly because of the gap between the rich and the poor, taking the three main canals in Amsterdam as the boundary.

Every house has hooks.

The narrowest house in Amsterdam is only a little wider than the door on the first floor. People are amazed and wonder what it's like to live in it. However, building such a narrow house is not the original intention of the local people. In Shuicheng, where land is precious, the amount of house tax directly depends on the width of the house, and people have invisibly formed the habit of narrowing the house. But Amsterdam people have also come up with their own clever tricks. Their houses are often well built, and living in them will not feel particularly "wronged".

Tilt the house into a world heritage site

Visitors are often amazed at the crumbling houses in Amsterdam: they are only three or four stories high, but the inclination is close to 20 degrees. Is it intentional or is there another reason? Locals say that houses here generally lean forward facing the canal, which reflects the good intentions of ancestors when building houses. On the one hand, it can protect the foundation of houses from rain, and on the other hand, it provides a broad space for carrying furniture, avoiding hitting the wall and breaking the glass, which is more convenient to operate. sensitive

In Amsterdam, you can eat any kind of food in the world. Compared with many places in Europe, the price is not very high, and the quantity is usually sufficient. Most local people take dinner as their main meal. Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Thai, China, Indian and Turkish dishes are available. There is a Chinatown in Amsterdam with various Chinese signs: restaurants, dim sum shops, roast duck restaurants, etc. , are quite authentic. Amsterdam has a long and rich coffee tradition. In recent years, from 10 to 15, the most popular cafe was R&F. This kind of coffee shop is very different from the traditional brown coffee shop in terms of scale and interior decoration. Generally speaking, their designs are spacious and fashionable, and they are filled with obvious international flavor. In addition to cafes, there is Proeflokalen, a wine tasting room, where you can taste fine wine.

Dutch lunch is very casual, and often a sandwich and salad will solve it, which is very simple; However, there are also shops that offer full lunches, such as caf 'e (pub) or coffee shops. And dinner is the focus of their three meals. Many good restaurants in Holland are full of people before seven o'clock. If you want to taste delicious food, you must make a reservation in advance. There are many good choices in the streets near Leidseplein, full of exotic customs, which I believe can meet the different needs of tourists.

speciality

Traditional Dutch meals all contain potatoes, meat and vegetables. The more distinctive cuisines are: stamppot (smoked sausage or pork with mashed potatoes and vegetables), hutspot (similar to stamppot, but with mashed potatoes and carrots and onions, the main course is stewed pork), erwtensoep (thick pea soup with smoked sausage or bacon), asperges (asparagus with ham and cream) and kroketten (fried meatballs with mustard sauce). However, some of these delicious Dutch dishes are only served in winter, so you should ask in advance.

festival

Amsterdam is the "Festival Capital". In 2007, about 140 festivals were held in this city.

Most celebrations are held during Koninginnedag, Gay Pride Day and Uitmarkt. On April 30th, Queen's Day, about100000 people took to the streets to celebrate. Most urban areas will open free markets, hold various concerts, and there are crowds everywhere. On the first weekend of August, during Gay Pride Day, there are long fleets carrying revelers everywhere on the city canal, and the carnival will last for the whole weekend. The cultural season is usually held at the end of August and lasts for three days. There will be performances by various poets and musicians. Amsterdam is also famous for its vibrant and unique nightlife. The two main nightlife squares are Leeds Square and Rembrandt Square.

There are many cafes in Amsterdam. They are big and small. The looming lights and candlelight give the traditional brown cafe an antique feeling. In summer, many coffee shops will set up food stalls. The most common sight at this time is the food stalls in the square and people enjoying beer or wine.

Amsterdam has a variety of restaurants because of its diverse cultures. You can find it from small restaurants to luxury restaurants. Many of the most upscale restaurants in the Netherlands are also gathered here.

There are also many discotheques in Amsterdam. Most dance halls are located near Rembrandt Square and Leeds Square. Paradiso, Galaxy, Sugar Factory and other large nightclubs also have discotheques. However, the typical representative of the ballroom is the escape club and the club house. In addition, Panama and Powerzone are also famous.

Reguliersdwarsstraat is the main gay street in this city.

In the red light district, the Dutch are open-minded, but gambling, drug abuse and whoring, which are forbidden in most countries, are legal in the Netherlands. Amsterdam's red light district is full of sex shops, sex shows and brothels. The most distinctive feature is the window display, where prostitutes stand in the window posing as goods for clients to choose from. The live sex performance in the theater is unique in Europe. In addition, some bars nearby are places for taking soft drugs, and it is legal to take soft drugs such as marijuana in the Netherlands. This unique scenery attracts a large number of tourists, but most people just want to see the scenery in the west. Note that the window girls in the red light district are not allowed to take pictures.

De Wallen (also known as Walletjes or Rosse Buurt) is a designated legal prostitution area and the largest and most famous red light district in Amsterdam. It consists of a network of roads and alleys, including hundreds of small single-room apartments rented by female sex workers, who provide services behind windows or glass doors specially lit with red lights. There are also many sex shops, sex theaters, peep shows, sex museums, marijuana museums and many marijuana cafes offering all kinds of marijuana products. Although 26% tourists will come to this area to "see", the number of brothels is still declining, so that the Chamber of Commerce issued a warning.