Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 11.1 km
Ascend 128 m
Descend 121 m

Explore Amsterdam in Netherlands with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in AmsterdamIndividual Sights in Amsterdam

Sight 1: Het Nieuwe Verbond

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The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, now the Church of the New Covenant, is a Roman Catholic church in the garden city of Slotermeer in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Wikipedia: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Lourdeskerk (Amsterdam) (NL)

1514 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Erotica

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Erotica is a work of art in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Wikipedia: Erotica (Erwin de Vries) (NL)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Barmhartige Samaritaan

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The Good Samaritan is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Wikipedia: De barmhartige Samaritaan (Gert ten Wolde) (NL)

805 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 4: Potkachel

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

Wikipedia: De potkachel (NL)

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Erasmuspark

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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)

496 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Jeruzalemkerk

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The Jerusalemkerk is a Protestant church building on Jan Maijenstraat in the Amsterdam district of Amsterdam, in the De Baarsjes district, near the Mercatorplein.

Wikipedia: Jeruzalemkerk (Amsterdam) (NL), Website

764 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: De Krommert

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De Krommert

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

Wikipedia: De Krommert (NL)

1372 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 8: De Otter

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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)

661 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 9: Frederik Hendrikplantsoen

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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)

521 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Heilige Nikolaas van Myrakerk

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Heilige Nikolaas van Myrakerk

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)

507 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Noorderkerk

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The Noorderkerk is a 17th-century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Noorderkerk is located along Prinsengracht canal, on Noordermarkt square. The church is used for Dutch Reformed Church services and is also used regularly for classical music concerts.

Wikipedia: Noorderkerk (EN)

474 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Het Huis met den Hoofden

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Het Huis met den Hoofden bMA / Attribution

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)

4 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Embassy of the Free Mind

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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

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Homomonument

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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

894 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 15: Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

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Canal Ring Area of AmsterdamSergey Galyonkin from Berlin, Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0

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

1938 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 16: EYE Filminstituut

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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

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