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Amsterdam’s 17th-Century Canal Houses and Merchant Mansions

Amsterdam’s 17th-Century Canal Houses and Merchant Mansions

Amsterdam · Netherlands

3 stops1.1 km13 min
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  • 4 languages
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Follow Amsterdam’s canal-side architecture through a canal house, a museum devoted to the city’s canals, and a merchant mansion. You will see how grand façades, elegant interiors, and canal living express the ambitions of the 17th century. Come for a focused look at the houses behind Amsterdam’s historic canal landscape, and leave with a deeper sense of the people who built and inhabited them.

The walk

  1. Keizersgracht 453 canal house

    A seventeenth-century canal house with a bookseller’s Van Gogh connection and a surprisingly busy later life.

  2. Museum of the Canals

    Museum of the Canals

    Museum of the Canals, a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

  3. Museum Van Loon

    Museum Van Loon

    A patrician house where Van Loon family history meets Amsterdam’s colonial past.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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