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The original city map, 1660 Redraft of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam in 1660, redrawn in 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan ...
Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, has a long and eventful history. The origins of the city lie around 1000 CE, [1][2] when inhabitants settled at the mouth of the Amstel and began peatland reclamation. [1] After the All Saints' Flood (1170), a dam was built in the Amstel to protect the lower lands from floods.
Canals of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than 100 kilometers (62 mi) of grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges. The three main canals (Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht), dug in the 17th century during the Dutch Golden Age, form concentric belts around the city, known as the Grachtengordel.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Large-scale map of the city centre of Amsterdam, including sightseeing markers, as of April 2017.
The Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Dutch: Metropoolregio Amsterdam) is the city region around the city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.It lies in the Noordvleugel (English: "North Wing") of the larger polycentric Randstad metropolitan area and encompasses the city of Amsterdam, the provinces of North Holland and Flevoland, as well as 36 further municipalities within the two ...
Detail from the map of Amsterdam by Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode from around the Verversgracht, Groene Burchwal and the Zuyderkerck. The area between the Kloveniersburgwal and the Zwanenburgwal was until late in the 16th century "the site outside the fortress at the Amstel". In 1593 the area was added to the city. Cloth weavers worked here.