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10 friendly truth about Amsterdam
Amsterdam is my absolute favorite city!
I love this place and I can't have enough about it - the past three years I and my wife have gone together every year.
The city was full of endless and beautiful architecture, beautiful river banks, fresh green parks, cultures, museums, history, great food and a great night life.
Whenever anyone asked me to introduce a place to a good city to break my answer is always Amsterdam - there is something for everyone there and I have never known any
So I can't refuse the opportunity to share some interesting things that I know ABO
Here are my 10 friendly truth about Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is a city built on wooden columns.
Due to the thick layer of Fen and my current clay
Normally, a house is located on about 10 wood
Do you know that the royal palace is located on 13,659 wooden columns and Centraal Amsterdam station located on more than 9,000 columns?!
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Amsterdam was only officially the capital of the Netherlands since 1983.
It is considered to be widely before the "economic and cultural capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam is only officially recognized as the capital in the early 80s.
Previously, despite the lack of clarity about the country's actual capital, Den Haag (The Hague) was considered the capital of the Netherlands because this is where the government resides (and still for this day), m
Amsterdam has the city poets that will write and read a poem at your funeral.
If someone dies in Amsterdam and is not required by any friends or relatives, they will receive a burial from the state in Amsterdam.
For people who died without recipients, a city poet was hired to learn as much as possible about him, and then they wrote a poem about them and read it into their funerals.
This is a service that the Netherlands government provides anyone who dies and is not required in Amsterdam, not only a Dutch citizen.
Amsterdam buildings are very narrow due to tax reasons.
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Because of this, the beautiful old buildings that you see queuing on the channel - and the street front of Amsterdam is particularly thin and high.
What you don't tend to see is that these houses are often farther away from them, as well as long.
The smallest house in the world is in Amsterdam at Het Singel 7.
It is only 3.5 feet wide and hardly wider than the front door of the house!
Many houses have smaller windows at their peak, bringing the optical illusion of the higher house - acting as a symbol of the status of wealth back during the day.
For those who observe eagle eyes, you will also notice how many houses close to the thin tower with their tops.
These hooks are equipped with tops so that large and bulky items can be line out on the upper floor of the house instead of bringing them to narrow stairs, steep and winding!
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Amsterdam's "XXX" symbol does not mean what you think it does.
Although "XXX" marks usually bring the meaning of adults, in Amsterdam, it is a symbol of Saint Andrew.
Saint Andrew is a fisherman tortured and crucified on a "X" in the first century BC.
The icon was used to represent Amsterdam since then
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Amsterdam has more channels than Venice and more bridges than Paris!
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In fact, Amsterdam has 165 canals and 1,281 bridges - with 80 giant bridges only around the channel alone!
Amsterdam's legacy is a small fishing village located behind the dike (or dam) on the Amstel River.
At that time, it was called Amstelredam rather than Amsterdam.
When the village grows into a town and then a city, the network of canals running through it is formed and shaped to help transport and trade - both with the outside world and in the city.
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The city's extensive canal and bridge network provides it with some of its spectacular websites.
For example, when you are standing on the corner of RegulierGracht and Herengracht, you can see 15 bridges at the same time!
Amsterdam has the highest museum concentration on every square meter of all cities in the world!
Amsterdam has more than 75 museums and some of the world's largest art collections.
As the house of the Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum museum, it will be no surprise that Amsterdam boasts the world's largest remarkt paintings and Van Gogh artwork.
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There are more than 1 million bicycles in Amsterdam.
As those who are lucky enough to visit Amsterdam will tell you, there are bikes everywhere!
After all, there are more than 250 miles of the weaving road cycle across the city.
A recent survey even showed that there are 63% of Amsterdammers using bicycles daily.
So it doesn't come too much surprise that there are more than 1 million bicycles here.
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However, it is still estimated that every year, about 25,000 bicycles lost to the channels of Amsterdam - deliberately or other!
Of these 25,000 bicycles, only 8,000 - 10,000 units were started by city boats every year.
In addition, every year more than 100,000 bicycles stolen!
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Amsterdam has 40 parks!
Here are some miracles, assuming that most cities are cycle paths, canals or bridges.
But Amsterdam has a strong growing park culture,
All parks mean you can always find a peaceful point anywhere in Amsterdam whether it's busy.
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These parrots are not a species of birds derived from the Netherlands or Amsterdam, but are bought there as pets that a few escape and begin to reproduce and live in the city since then.
Amsterdam's main shopping street has existed for over 600 years!
Initially known as Byndewyck, this road became the main shopping street after building the medieval city walls.
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Kalverstraat has the highest rental price
