The Amsterdam Canal District Amsterdam’s central Canal District was crowned a World Heritage Site in 2010. Helping draw the gaze away from the red lights and the smoke houses, the recognition focused attention on the city’s truer core: the loop of concentric canals that the burghers dug up, largely in the seventeenth century, as Amsterdam morphed into a muscular mercantile power and one of Europe’s most gorgeous cultural epicentres. bluedanubeholidays/c-Dutch-Tulip-Cruise.htm
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