Events

The Dam sleepers: hippies on the monument and marines with their belts

In the late 1960s Dam Square turned into one big dormitory at night. Hundreds of young people from all over Europe rolled out their sleeping bags on the steps of the National Monument. Amsterdam hesitated for a long...

City centre 3 min read 30 Oct 2026

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Streets and bridges The Minervaplein: a stately square that took almost thirty years South · 5 min

City culture Zwarte Riek: the singer who made Amsterdam cry City centre · 3 min

Events The kidnapping of Maup Caransa: ten million and no one ever convicted City centre · 4 min

Fun facts Why is Amsterdam the capital and not The Hague? City centre · 2 min

The city on the map

126 stories, on the spot where they happened. Pick an area or share your location.

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Traffic and transport

When you could simply drive your car underneath the Rijksmuseum

South · 2 min

Underground

When metro stations doubled as mysterious fallout shelters

City centre · 3 min

City views

The Forgotten IKEA on Amsterdam’s Stadhouderskade

City centre · 2 min

Fun facts

Ons Amsterdam collects 750 years of stories

Whole city · 2 min

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Buildings and places 26 stories Streets and bridges 26 stories Events 21 stories Traffic and transport 16 stories Underground 9 stories City culture 15 stories City views 6 stories Fun facts 7 stories

Walking routes Canal ring and Leidseplein: gold, squats and rock and roll 4,0 km, 94 min Jewish Quarter and Plantage: the city that vanished and came back 4,8 km, 92 min South: from the Rijksmuseum to the Olympic Stadium 7,7 km, 133 min

Pub quiz

How many people were injured in 2010 when a man screamed during the Remembrance Day silence on Dam Square?

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