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  2. Timeline of Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    2006 - Amsterdam Film eXperience begins. 2007 KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival begins. Diamond Museum Amsterdam opens. Centrale Bibliotheek moves into new building. Amsterdam City Archives relocates to De Bazel building. De Schreeuw memorial erected in the Oosterpark. [43] 2008 - Amsterdam Holendrecht railway station opens. 2009 - H'ART ...

  3. History of Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    Traders, artists, burghers: A cultural history of Amsterdam in the 17th century (1976) Roekholt, Richter. A short history of Amsterdam (2004) Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1997) Shorto, Russell. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City. New York: Vintage Books 2014.

  4. Architecture of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    For instance, light-coloured bands were embedded into facades to emphasize this horizontal character. Another common application in Dutch Renaissance architecture, particularly in Amsterdam, was the stepped gable, which was meant to hide the diagonal lines of the gable behind the straight lines of the façade. [2]

  5. History of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Oudewater was conquered by the Spanish on 7 August 1575, and most of its inhabitants were killed. Maastricht was besieged, sacked and destroyed twice in succession (in 1576 and 1579) by the Spanish. In a war largely of sieges rather than battles, Governor-General Alexander Farnese proved his mettle. His strategy was to offer generous terms for ...

  6. Oude Kerk, Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    The Oude Kerk (English: Old Church) is Amsterdam's oldest building and newest art institute (since 2012). The building was founded about 1213 and consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht with Saint Nicolas as its patron saint. After the Reformation in 1578, it became a Calvinist church, which it remains today.

  7. List of tallest buildings in Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    Amsterdam Symphony A: 105,0 m 2009 29 6 Amsterdam Symphony B: 105,0 m 2009 28 7 World Trade Center (Amsterdam)(Tower H) 105,0 m 2004 28 8 ABN-AMRO World HQ: 105,0 m 1999 25 9 Amstel Tower: 103,0 m 2018 32 10 The Valley North Tower 101,0 m 2021 28 11 Justus 100,0 m 2024 32 12 Ito-toren: 100,0 m 2005 23 13 A'DAM Toren: 100,0 m 1971 22 14 ...

  8. Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    Amsterdam has three main theatre buildings. Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam's best-known theatre Royal Theater Carré, It was originally meant as a permanent circus building. The Stadsschouwburg at the Leidseplein is the home base of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. The current building dates from 1894. Most plays are performed in the Grote Zaal (Great Hall).

  9. De Bazel - Wikipedia

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    The building commemorates the history of the NHM and specifically the heroic deeds of the three colonial generals J. P. Coen, Daendels, and J. B. van Heutsz. De Bazel served as main office of the NHM, then the Algemene Bank Nederland and the Dutch bank ABN AMRO. In 1999 the city of Amsterdam bought the building.