Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The potstove is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: De potkachel (NL)

The Erasmuspark is a city park in Amsterdam-West. It is also the name of a district in which it is located.

Wikipedia: Erasmuspark (NL)

De Krommert is a neighborhood in the Amsterdam district of West, named after De Watergang de Krommert.

Wikipedia: De Krommert (NL)

De Otter is a paltrok mill in Amsterdam, Netherlands which has been restored to working order. As all Dutch paltrok mills it is a windpowered sawmill. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 1198.

Wikipedia: De Otter, Amsterdam (EN)

Frederik Hendrikplantsoen is a park in Amsterdam West, on the edge of the Jordaan in one of the greenest historic neighbourhoods of Amsterdam. The park is located in the Frederik Hendrikbuurt Neighbourhood and has recently undergone extensive investment and redevelopment in consultation with the local community. It is notable for its sculpture group 'De Stam' or 'The Tribe' by Atelier van Lieshout.

Wikipedia: Frederik Hendrikplantsoen (EN)

The Tichelkerk or Tichel is a church building on the corner of the Lijnbaansgracht and the Tichelstraat in the Amsterdam Jordaan. She was built in 1912 as a Roman Catholic Sint-Antoniuskerk. In 2005 it became the Russian Orthodox Saint Nikolaas of Myrakerk. In the same year, the building was designated as a municipal monument. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the parish separated from the Moscow Patriarchate and joined the Orthodox Archdiocese of Belgium, Exarchy of the Netherlands and Luxembourg under the ecumenical patriarchy of Constantinopel.

Wikipedia: H. Nicolaas van Myrakerk (Amsterdam) (NL)

The Blue Violin Player or De Blauwe Vioolspeler (1982) is a metal sculpture located near the Raampoortbrug bridge in Amsterdam Netherlands. It is also called Man Trying to Catch Tram 10 or Man with Violin Case. The identity of the artist is unknown.

Wikipedia: The Blue Violin Player (EN)

The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. Opened on 5 September 1987, it was the first monument in the world to commemorate gays and lesbians who were killed by the German Nazi regime.

Wikipedia: Homomonument (EN), Website

The Bartolotti House is a canal house at Herengracht 170-172 in Amsterdam. It was built around 1617 for Willem van den Heuvel tot Beichlingen, one of the richest Amsterdammers at the time, who had inherited a lot of money from a childless uncle by marriage, Giovanni Battista Bartolotti, a merchant from Bologna. In this uncle's will, it was stipulated that he had to call himself "Bartolotti". The name is sometimes also "From the Hill to Beichlingen Said Bartolotti". His mother Maria Pels (?-1592) married Willem Bartolotti in Stade in 1589. Her son Jan Baptist Bartolotti van den Heuvel (1590-1624) married Leonora Hellemans Arnoudsdochter (1594-1661) in 1612.

Wikipedia: Huis Bartolotti (NL), Website

The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum, library and platform for free thinking, inspired by the philosophy of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection. The museum focusses on the European culture of free thinking of the past 2.000 years, with Hermetic wisdom as the source of inspiration: insight into the connection between God, cosmos and man. This connection is reflected in the Hermetic, alchemical, astrological, magical, mystical, kabbalistic and Rosicrucian texts and images in the collection.

Wikipedia: Embassy of the Free Mind (EN), Website, Facebook, Instagram

The House with the Heads is a large canal house on the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam, named after the six ornaments shaped as heads, which are on the façade. The house is a rijksmonument and is listed on the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.

Wikipedia: Huis met de Hoofden (EN)

De Poezenboot is an Amsterdam animal shelter for cats. It is located on a houseboat on the Singel. The Poezenboot takes in stray cats and rehomes them. A number of the cats roam freely on the boat, which is open to visitors. At peak times, the Poezenboot houses about 60 cats.

Wikipedia: De Poezenboot (Amsterdam) (NL), Website

The Monument to Annick van Hardeveld is a war memorial in the centre of Amsterdam. The monument in the form of a bluestone pedestal with a plaque is placed on the Hekelveld, in front of the building that bears house number 25. It was designed by the artist Hans Bayens.

Wikipedia: Monument voor Annick van Hardeveld (NL)

The Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010. The Amsterdam Canal District consists of the area around the city's four main canals: the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht, and the Prinsengracht. From the Brouwersgracht, the canals are generally parallel with one another, leading gradually southeast into the Amstel river.

Wikipedia: Grachtengordel (EN), Website

De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam. It consists of a network of alleys containing approximately 300 one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights and blacklight. Window prostitution is the most visible and typical kind of red-light district sex work in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: De Wallen (EN)

The HIV/AIDS monument is an artistic work of art on De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam-Centrum that was unveiled on 1 December 2016.

Wikipedia: HIV/AIDSmonument (NL)

The Office of Koppe's Scheepsagentuur, also known as the NACO house, is a building on the De Ruijterkade, Amsterdam-Centre. It was included in the monument register on 22 April 2002 because of the combination of the Amsterdam School and an exotic architectural style, especially in the roof. Since 13 December 2021, it has been located at bridge 2274 over the Eastern Entrance.

Wikipedia: Kantoor van Koppe's Scheepsagentuur (NL)

Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: EYE Film Institute Netherlands (EN), Website

The wall is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Noord.

Wikipedia: De muur (kunstwerk) (NL)