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Amsterdam King’s Day Celebrations

Amsterdam King’s Day Celebrations

Amsterdam · Netherlands

7 stops7.5 km1 h 30 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a festive route through Amsterdam’s parks, markets, squares and shopping streets, each offering a different setting for experiencing King’s Day. You’ll move from the open paths of Vondelpark and Sarphatipark to lively market surroundings and the city’s best-known gathering places. This walk is worth taking for a varied, people-focused view of how King’s Day fills Amsterdam with celebration.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Vondelpark

    Vondelpark

    A private housing scheme became Amsterdam’s most visited park, with a surprisingly troubled foundation.

  2. Albert Cuyp Markt

    Albert Cuyp Markt

    A working street market shaped by Amsterdam’s traders, migrants, and one very famous stroopwafel.

  3. Sarphatipark

    Sarphatipark

    A sunken nineteenth-century park shaped by Sarphati, water engineering, war, and a citizens’ victory

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. New Market

    New Market

    A market square built around a medieval gate, and reshaped by protest, war, and the metro.

  6. Dam Square

    Dam Square

    A medieval dam that became Amsterdam’s civic stage, market, palace square, and memorial ground.

  7. The 9 Streets

    The 9 Streets

    The 9 Streets is an attraction in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 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.