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Amsterdam History and Monuments

Amsterdam History and Monuments

Amsterdam · Netherlands

14 stops5.8 km1 h 10 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Amsterdam’s history by pausing at churches, civic buildings, towers, canals, memorials, museums and a castle. You will see how monuments and historic places appear throughout the city, from the Oude Kerk to the Koninklijk Paleis and the Grachtengordel van Amsterdam. The walk is worth taking for its varied sequence of buildings and memorials, each offering another way to encounter the city’s past.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Old Church

    Old Church

    Amsterdam’s oldest surviving building, reshaped from Catholic church to Protestant church and art space.

  2. Berlage's Stock Market

    Berlage's Stock Market

    A stock exchange born from a furious argument about money, architecture, and where Amsterdam should build it.

  3. Weepers' Tower

    Weepers' Tower

    Amsterdam’s last surviving defensive tower, with a doubtful farewell story and a very real maritime past.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Waag

    Waag

    A medieval gate turned weighing house, guildhall, anatomy theatre, and near-cathedral.

  6. Zuiderkerk

    Zuiderkerk

    A Protestant church built from scratch, then turned into Amsterdam’s urban memory room.

  7. Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

    Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

    A planned seventeenth-century city of canals, commerce, houses, and ambitions still shaping Amsterdam.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.