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Red Light district (Amsterdam)
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Amsterdam's famous Red Light District covers a large area in the oldest part of the city. It has been servicing the personal needs and desires of locals and visitors for five centuries. There is a certain charm to the area thanks to the old buildings leaning at odd angles overlooking tree-enshrouded canals, while inviting pubs, cafes and coffeeshops tempt you to linger longer.

Marco van Basten's house
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The Dutch football manager and former head coach of Eredivisie side AFC Ajax and the Dutch national team lives here.
Previously, he was a football player who played for Ajax and A.C. Milan in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is regarded as one of the finest forwards of all time and scored 277 goals in a career cut short by injury.
It is also available in Street View: http://bit.ly/FZV5w

1992-10-04 - Bijlmer disaster site
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The Bijlmerramp (in English: Bijlmer disaster) was an airplane crash. On October 4, 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane of the Israeli El Al airline crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmer neighbourhood (part of 'Amsterdam Zuidoost') of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. A total of 43 people were killed, including the plane's crew of three and an unidentified "nonrevenue passenger". Many more were injured.
The plane, a cargo jet belonging to the Israeli carrier El Al, departed at 18h10 from Schiphol airport for Tel Aviv. Above the Gooimeer, two of the plane's engines broke off the right wing: A fuse pin on engine 3 sheared inappropriately due to corrosion, leaving the pod to tilt up and right due to gyroscopic forces, knocking engine 4 off the wing too. A China Airlines 747-200F freighter was brought down by the same causes in December 1991.
The crew remained unaware of the extent of the damage, being unable to see the wing. After circling twice the plane returned to the airport and attempted to land. During the approach the flaps were extended, which apparently rendered the plane uncontrollable. At 18h35 the heavily loaded plane crashed into a row of high-rise apartments called Groeneveen. The building caught fire and partially collapsed, destroying dozens of apartments.
The number of casualties was relatively low (43 compared to the 200 or more expected), as the plane did not carry passengers and most residents of the building were not at home at the time of the crash. Some people believe that the number of casualties was higher than 43, as many illegal residents were suspected to have lived in the building. About 45 houses were completely destroyed.

Ann Frank's House
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Anne Frank was one of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the second world war. After Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, increasingly severe anti-Jewish measures began here as well. The Frank family tried to escape by going into hiding. On July 1942, Otto Frank, Edith Frank-Hollander and their daughters Margot and Anne hid in this building on the Prinsengracht.

Johan Cruyff Arena
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Rijksmuseum
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The Rijksmuseum (IPA: rɛiks-; Dutch for National Museum) is a national museum of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam on the Museumplein. The Rijksmuseum is dedicated to arts, crafts and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art.
The museum was founded in 1800 in The Hague to exhibit the collections of the Dutch stadtholders. It was inspired by the French example. By then it was known as the National Art Gallery (Dutch: Nationale Kunst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king Louis Napoleon, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as The Night Watch (Dutch: De nachtwacht) by Rembrandt, became part of the collection.
In 1885 the museum moved to its current location, built by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers. He combined gothic and renaissance elements. The museum has a prominent position on the Museumplein, near the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum. The building is richly decorated with references to the Dutch art history. Rembrandts The Night Watch has its own hall in the museum since 1906. Since 2003 the museum in restoration, but the masterpieces are continuously present for the viewing public.
The paintings collection includes works by artists Jacob van Ruysdael, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt and Rembrandts pupils.
As of 2005, 95% of the museum is closed for renovation, but paintings from the permanent collection are still on display in a special exhibition called The Masterpieces in the recently renovated Philips wing.

Amsterdam Orphanage by Aldo van Eyck
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Murder site Theo van Gogh
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Mohammed Bouyeri assassinated van Gogh in the early morning of Tuesday November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat streets. He shot him with eight bullets from a HS2000 (a handgun produced in 2000 in Croatia), and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri slit van Gogh's throat and then stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one pinning a five-page note to his body. The note threatened Western governments, Jews and Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contains references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra.

'In the café: Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin' by Vincent van Gogh
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Graffiti
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By The London Police.

Hells Angels Place Amsterdam
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Slotervaart Ziekenhuis
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Swastika shaped hospital in Amsterdam

Artis Zoo
Founded in 1838, the Artis Zoo is still as enchanting as it was nearly two centuries ago. Not only is Artis an oasis of peace right at the heart of a fast-paced city, but it is also a haven for some 700 animal species and 200 tree varieties, many on the verge of extinction. Artis is also one of the fewest zoos in Europe to have so many listed buildings within its grounds, namely the Large Museum (1855), the unique Library building (1867) and the Aquarium (1882).

Graffiti by Invader
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Invader (born 1969) is a street artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invaders game, made up of small coloured square tiles that form a mosaic. He does this in cities across the world, then documents this as an "Invasion", with maps of where to find each invader.
He started this project in 1998 with the invasion of Paris - the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date .
The mosaics depict characters from Space Invaders and other video games from the late 1970s. The images in these games were made with fairly low-resolution graphics, and are therefore suitable for reproduction as mosaics, with tiles representing the pixels. The tiles are difficult to alter and weather-resistant.

Censored area
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Concertgebouw
It was Bernard Haitink who once described the Concertgebouw as the best instrument in the orchestra it houses. This must have been what the great and the good of Amsterdam had in mind in 1881, when they decided that the Dutch capital should have a proper concert hall worthy of the name. Seven years later, in the marshy fields just outside the city limits, there stood a wonder of neoclassical architecture, the Concertgebouw, a building that now, like its most important player, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, enjoys a worldwide reputation.

Leidseplein
The square developed in the 17-th century as a wagon park for farmers and peasants to leave their carts here before entering the city centre. The name is because of Leidsepoort, which once marked the end of the main road from Amsterdam to Leiden. Nowadays, Leidseplein is a busy tram intersection and centre of night-time transport.
Leidseplein is one of Amsterdam's popular centers for nightlife, with theatres, lots of cafes, restaurants, cinemas, the casino, the Lido theatre with live entertainment and music centres Paradiso and Melkweg. Street musicians, jugglers, fire-eaters and other performers make the square a lively place until the early hours, especially on warm summer evenings, when you can get there also a henna tattoo.
At night, it is the meeting point for youth, who hang out in the clubs and cinemas around the square. It is also popular with pickpockets as well with drunk groups of tourists.

Central Station (Amsterdam)

Broekmans & Van Poppel (sheet music store)
"Mr. Van Poppel, a former employee of Alsbach's, and Mr. Broekmans who was prepared to invest in this project, founded Broekmans & Van Poppel in 1914. After a few years the company was continued by Mr. W. van der Meer, a violin- and bowmaker and in addition to this would like to have a sheet-music store. Very soon Mr. P.J.A. Ganzinotti was employed at the age of 13. He was able to expand the shop enormously and also started to publish.
In 1942 his son Giovanni joined the company and in the years after three sons of Giovanni, Piet, Ron and Giovanni Jr., joined also.
Currently Broekmans & Van Poppel occupies two large stores in 2 cities, Amsterdam and Utrecht, has a large catalogue with a number of educational publications and among others a Flute-Series in which a number of important publications are published for several kinds of combinations."

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Suite at Hilton Amsterdam
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In this bed John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent their honeymoon in this suite and used the bed for their World Peace event between March 25. and 31. 1969.

'Het Oosten Pavilion' by Steven Holl
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Dinopark
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Hands Up!
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Ikea Amsterdam
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Vondelpark
Vondelpark is the largest city park in Amsterdam, and certainly the most famous park in the Netherlands, which welcomes about 10 million visitors every year. The Vondelpark is located south of Leidseplein and quite near of the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum.
The Vondelpark is loved by Amsterdammers as well as by tourists, and is full of people - enjoying a sunny day, dog-walking, jogging, roller-skating, listening to music, people-watching, or just lazing about in grass. Free concerts are given at the open-air theatre or in the summer at the park's bandstand. Other attractions are the statue of the poet Vondel, the cast iron music dome, the Groot Melkhuis with playground for children, and the Film museum with its popular terrace.

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 subjected to persecution because of their homosexuality. Opened on September 5, 1987, it takes the form of three large pink triangles made of granite, set into the ground so as to form a larger triangle, on the bank of the Keizersgracht canal, near the historic Westerkerk church. - Wikipedia

KLM Jumbo
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Albert Cuypmarkt
Most famous daymarket in Holland since the 17th century.

"Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station" by Grimshaw/Arcadis
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Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA (Asb) is a railway station in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of the Amsterdam Zuidoost stadsdeel (borough) of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The station has five platforms and eight tracks; two for the Amsterdam Metro and six train tracks, along with a bus station.

Botel Amsterdam
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Hotel boat in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Red High Heels
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Waitress (No face blur)
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Heineken Music Hall
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Heineken Music Hall (or commonly abbreviated as HMH) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands, near the Amsterdam ArenA (Amsterdam South-East). The big hall (also called Black Box) is used for the concerts, has a capacity of 5,500 and is 3000 m². After parties are given in a smaller hall, with a capacity of 700.
Board sign of musicians playing at the Heineken Music Hall. September 2006.The Heineken Music Hall was specially designed for pop music. The hall is praised for its acoustics and it's said these are the best in Europe.

Anne Frank's House (Former)
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Anne Frank House located on the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building.

JBA Falcon
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Justin Bieber's Amsterdam Penthouse
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The Sun is reporting that pop star Justin Bieber paid €24.5M for this 3 story, 11,200 sqft penthouse in the DAM3 building, which offers views of both the National Monument and Royal Palace. Amenities of the building include valet parking, five-star service from the neighboring NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, private butler, 24/7 security and room service.

Westerkerk
The Westerkerk was officially opened on Whitsunday 1631. It is one of the oldest churches especially built for the Protestant services, and the largest as such church in the Netherlands.
The tower, which occupies a unique place in the affections of the people of Amsterdam, bears the symbol of the imperial crown of Maximilian of Austria, which was his gift to the city in gratitude for support given tot the Austro-Burgundian princes. It has inspired many songs and poems and remains a symbol of the city for Amsterdammers abroad.
Rembrandt, one of the world’s most famous painters, was buried in the church.
Near the church and in view of the tower, Anne Fank wrote her diary in the Annex, her hiding place from the Nazis.

Olympic Stadium Amsterdam (1928)
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ING Headquarters
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ING's headquarters are located near Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Designed by Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten, the light-infused building features loggias, patios and interior gardens. The edifice is supported by posts of 9 to 12 meters (30 to 39ft).

Rembrandt: The Night Watch
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Night Watch or The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch. It is on prominent display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, being the best known painting in their collection. The Night Watch is considered to be one of the most famous paintings in the world.

Sunbathe
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'Lookout Point' by Frans de Wit
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1992
at Spaarnwoude

Bicyclist
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Madame Tussauds House of Wax
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas, New York City and Shanghai(open soon). It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.
Madame Tussaud (1761-1850), born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius, a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. In 1765, Curtius made a waxwork of Marie Jean du Barry, Louis XV's mistress. A cast of that mould is the oldest work currently on display. The first exhibition of Curtius' waxworks was shown in 1770, and attracted a large audience. The exhibition moved to the Palais Royal in Paris in 1776. He opened a second location on Boulevard du Temple in 1782, the "Caverne des Grands Voleurs", a precursor to the later Chamber of Horrors.

Hard Rock Cafe Amsterdam

3 Crosses
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VOC ship Amsterdam
The VOC (Dutch East India Company) ship Amsterdam ran aground near Hastings, England in January 1749, on its maiden voyage to Batavia. The ship sank to a depth of 6m, and soon sank into the mud.
In 1969, the Amsterdam was discovered after being exposed by a low spring tide. It is the best-preserved VOC ship ever found. Archeologist Peter Marsden did the first surveying of the wreck, and he advised further excavation.
The VOC Ship Amsterdam Foundation started researching the wreck, followed by major excavations in 1984, 1985 and 1986, during which huge numbers of artifacts were found. The archeological output was so dense, that new ways of researching needed to be developed, all of which were needed to understand the technological, socio-economic and cultural features of the VOC.
A replica was built in Amsterdam, 1985-1990; it is part of the Netherlands Maritime Museum.

Official AJAX Fanshop and Museum at Amsterdam ArenA
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Model ship William Rex
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Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
While not an actual model of a real ship, The William Rex is an example of a 74 gun Dutch man-of-war.

Royal Palace of Amsterdam and Dam Square
The Royal Palace of Amsterdam was build in the 17th century as the new city hall of Amsterdam. When King Louis Napoleon came to Amsterdam in 1808 he had the city hall turned into a royal palace.

Oude Kerk (Amsterdam)
The Oude Kerk (Old Church) is the oldest building in Amsterdam. Although there is no absolute certainty, the church was probably consecrated in 1306.

Noorderkerk
The monumental Noorderkerk was built in the beginning of the 17th century. It was the second Protestant church in Holland. The people of the Jordaan neighborhood had finally convinced the city council that the distance to the Westerkerk was too far and that they needed their own church. To this very day, the Noorderkerk is the focal point of a flourishing Protestant community. (holland.com)

ING Headquarters
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Turkish Airlines Plane Crash (Feb. 25, 2009)
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed here while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday Feb. 25, 2009.

'WoZoCo Housing' by MVRDV
MVRDV is a Rotterdam, the Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1991. The name is an acronym for the founding members: Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964) and Nathalie de Vries (1965). Maas and Van Rijs worked at OMA, De Vries at Mecanoo before starting MVRDV.

Rembrandt grave memorial in Westerkerk
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The memorial for the grave of Rembrandt van Rijn. The grave was destroyed 20 years after his funeral. Only this memorial at the site of his grave remains.

Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone /ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
Famous for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 'bed-in for peace'.

'Mahler 4 Block 5' by Toyo Ito
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2005

Narrowest House in the World
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The narrowest house in the world is to be found in Amsterdam, on the Singel, no.7. Only one metre in breadth, it is barely wider than the front door. Naturally the people who live there have to be slim! However to be honest it is only the front of the house that is so narrow. Behind this facade the house broadens out to more normal dimensions.

Heineken Brouwerji
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Former Heineken brewery, now serves as heaquaters to Heineken NV and site to the Heineken Experience

Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum consists of two buildings: the main structure designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973, and the Exhibition Wing by Kisho Kurokawa completed in 1999. The architecture of the museum has a complex history: apart from these two architects, several others have contributed to finishing, rebuilding or remodelling parts of both buildings.

Theatre Casa Rosso, Amsterdam
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Casa Rosso is a live sex theatre in the Amsterdam Red Light District.

KLM Asia Boeing 747-400 Combi

Heineken Brewery
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Sportpark Ookmeer
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Home field to Amsterdam Pirates

'Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer' by Vincent van Gogh
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Museumplein
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Site of the Pit Stop of Leg 9 of The Amazing Race 26

Interview (Pixelated faces)
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Nieuwe Lutherse Kerk
This round church, which has a dome and an ambulatory along half of its circumference, was burnt to the ground in 1822 in a fire caused by careless plumbers. It was rebuilt in 1823 by T.F. Suys and J. de Greef who gave it a coffered vault instead of the former smooth vault with ribs.

Nieuwmarkt
Nieuwmarkt is a square in the centre of the Dutch city Amsterdam.
It is located next to the De Wallen which are also known as the Red Light District. There are over 20 cafés and coffeeshops facing the square, and on the middle of the square is a building known as De Waag, which used to be the building where you would enter the city, and pay your taxes.

Amsterdam Arena
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Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is the largest stadium in the country and it was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on 14 August 1996.

Tuschinski Theatre
In 2002, the theatre is back to where Abraham Tuschinski started in 1911. The French Pathé, which furnished himwith the first material and granted him the first licence, now owns the cinema that bears his name. The Tuschinski theatre is still a household word of film.
Approximately 600.000 people go to watch film there each year, not to mention thousands who specially visit the theatre to admire its splendour. A function the theatre has always fulfilled, that of a première theatre, has been preserved. This can certainly be called a tradition when it comes to James Bond films. The gala première for the European continent is always held at Tuschinski. However, many other films have their Dutch, European or world première at Tuschinski. First of all, its ambience is ideally suited to such festivities. In addition, these are always perfectly organized. The Tuschinski staff is more than capable of making such major events happen. So it comes as no surprise that the Tuschinski Theatre is used increasingly often for events, congresses than film screenings. These days, it is the venue for many a conference, party, fashion show and concert. Television programmes and photograph sessions are also shot at Tuschinski. All this proves once again that this cinema is multifunctional.

Fire Training
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Schiphol Fire Training Plane

Coffeeshop Grasshopper

1928 Summer Olympic cauldron
1928 was the first time the Olympic flame was lit and that was here.

Google car
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again

middle finger
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Airplane, ship near Amsterdam
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An Airbus A-340 crosses paths with a cargo ship while on approach to Amsterdam Schipol.

Parkrand Building by MVRDV

Covered Google Cam

Alanis Morissette

'SiloDam' by MVRDV

Bridge to Nowhere
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Abandoned highway bridge in Amsterdam.

The "Vrije Universiteit" and VUmc
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The "Vrije Univeristeit" and VUmc campus. The univeristy in Amsterdam South

Tropicana Amsterdam
Tropicana is the largest subtropical oasis in the Netherlands! In Tropicana you feel like being in paradise with palm and banana trees and a constant temperature of 30c!

'Cancer Centre Amsterdam' by MVRDV
2005

Hermitage Amsterdam
Hermitage Amsterdam or Hermitage on the Amstel is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg on the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The dependency is located at the former Amstelhof, a classical style building from 1681. The dependency has been displaying small exhibitions in a side building next to the Amstelhof since February 2004. The new Amsterdam Hermitage in the Amstelhof is due to open in early 2009

Pampus fort island
Pampus is a shallow area in the former inland sea the Zuiderzee. At low tide it used to block the access of seagoing ships to the Amsterdam port. It was quite a handicap for the VOC, the Dutch East Indian Trading Company.
Late in the 19th century an island fort was built at the site as one of a ring of 42 fortifications surrounding Amsterdam. The fort was abandoned in 1933 when the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea by a dam and became the lake IJsselmeer.
Since 1824, seagoing ships approach Amsterdam by canal, first the Noordhollandsch Kanaal and later the Noorzeekanaal. The Noordhollandsch Kanaal was dug to alleviate the difficulties caused by the Pampus shallow.

The Food Strip
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The Food Strip in Amsterdam-Zuidoost houses a number of restaurants. Among them these KFC and Burger King outlets.

Landing KLM Boeing 747

Sexmuseum

Censored area at Schiphol

Velodrome Amsterdam
The velodrome is a multifunctional centre with a cycling track as its main attraction.

HR. MS. MAHU M880
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Bilderberg Hotel Amterdam
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'Sight Point' by Richard Serra
1972-75
Dedicated to Leo Castelli

Rembrandttoren
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Rembrandt Tower in English.
Height: 135 meters (app. 443 ft), therefore the 5th tallest building in The Netherlands.

'Qubic' by hvdn architecten

Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
The luxurious 5-star hotel NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky is situated in the very heart of Amsterdam at Dam square, opposite the Royal Palace. It is surrounded by department stores, boutiques and shopping alleys. Numerous sights, museums and theatres in the historic city centre are all within walking distance. At the back of the hotel NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky has its own landing dock for boats. Behind the facade of NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky guests can enjoy several restaurants and a complete congress centre. There is the breathtaking Wintertuin, the glass palace dating from 1879 where breakfast and lunch is served. Brasserie Reflet is the timeless restaurant from the Belle Epoque serving mediterranean cuisine. Both are listed as National Monuments. In The Lounge you can overlook Dam Square with the Royal Palace while drinking coffee or enjoying high tea. The Japanese restaurants Edo en Kyo present you the traditional Japanese Cuisine. In de Golden Palm Bar guests can enjoy a drink or do business in a comfortable way. A real dining adventure is Shibli Restaurant, where you experience Middle-Eastern hospitality.