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Beyond The Amsterdam Network
Amsterdam is always interesting. There are so many things to talk about this beautiful city; the people, the entertainment and so on. But what are also amazing and become a legend of Amsterdam are the canals that can be found throughout the city. With more than a hundred kilometers of big-small waterway and water alley, this is no longer just water transportation; this is a network.
Amsterdam was founded in the mid-13th century as a mere dam across the Amstel River. Its fortunes were stimulated by the 1602 founding of the Dutch East India Company, whose ships and sailors brought back treasures from the far east. Soon a network of canals helped transform the city into a huge port. Square riggers could unload cargoes of silks, Moluccan spices, Chinese Export porcelain and other riches for barge transport straight into the warehouses and merchant’s home’s.
There are three main canals of Amsterdam, i.e.: Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizergracht. But when they’re being dug during the 17th century, the Gentlemen’s Canal was the smartest address in town. Along its banks stand an assortment of canal houses built three centuries ago by maritime merchant princes. Today there are several hotels occupy old townhouses along the Gentlemen’s Canal. Every morning people who stay at the hotels, sometime with their big expandable luggage, step outside to find the canal waters sparkling, elm trees aglow in the yellow summer sun, and the sky a delft blue painted with white clouds. The long rows of gingerbread houses with lace curtains made the kind of picture that people could imagine unfolding from a children’s pop-up book.
Although Amsterdam is often compared with Venice, many people gratefully observed that it lacks the Italian city’s occasional aroma, since sewage doesn’t end up in the canals and garbage is regularly removed. A system of sluices and pumps renews the whole network with fresh seawater about every three nights. All of us know that Amsterdam lies largely below sea level. Without dunes and dikes on the North Sea coast, it would disappear under water.
Near sunset the canal banks filled with Amsterdammers pedaling their bikes home with bright bouquets in their baskets. Among them, we can find many young people with communication device on their ears. Many other people of younger generations can also be seen with handheld entertainment on their hands. But don’t think that Amsterdammers only live in a city of water. They sometimes dwell right on it. Houseboats, often beautifully painted, line many banks. Along the Singel canal there’s one houseboat that serves as a kind of Noah’s Ark, where enthusiastic volunteers take care of homeless cats.
Not so far to the northwest Amsterdam visitors will pass near the Jordan district. This name is said to come from jardin, the French word for garden. This old neighborhood has a village feeling and a bohemian spirit and it can be seen from its cafes, antique shops, picturesque houses and pretty little streets and canals.
Along the banks of most of the canals stand rows of Amsterdam’s trim, narrow canal houses. The older facades are mainly red or black brick, pattern with a panoply of gleaming windows. Capping the tops are gables festooned with ornaments: scrolls, fruit, or flowers painted confectionery white, looking remarkably like the whipped cream that Amsterdammers heap on hot chocolate.
Amsterdam is really a city with many personalities indeed..., and one where just about anything goes.
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