Amsterdam photos
Picture data
Title: Amsterdam
Description: Boat, Amsterdam.
Author:
Gianluca Porzio
Camera: HTC Touch Diamond
Amsterdam description
Amsterdam is the largest city of the Netherlands in the province of North Holland. Amsterdam has one of the major centers of the Renaissance throughout Europe. Many buildings dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, also known as the Golden Age, is now regarded as historic monuments and are set around a series of semicircular canals. These surround the old port that once looked out on the Zuiderzee, now separated from the rest of the open sea and known as the IJsselmeer, or Lake IJssel. The city is famous for hosting the Rijksmuseum (State Museum), the Van Gogh Museum, the Concertgebouw, the Rembrandt House Museum, the Anne Frank House, the monument to the memory of homosexuals killed in Nazi death camps and a huge number of bicycles.
Amsterdam is the city of Ajax, a football team that won the Dutch league four times the European Cup twice and the Intercontinental Cup. In the mid-nineties has left the old De Meer Stadium Ajax to move nell’Amsterdam ArenA, located in the south-east of the city.
Amsterdam is the cultural center of the Netherlands, with great activity in the arts, dance, music and theater. Many roads are accompanied by bike paths and park the bike racks are located throughout the city.
The traditional cuisine is based on a single course of proportions abundant, usually consisting of meat, vegetables and potatoes. A traditional Dutch food is raw herring, which in Amsterdam is served cut into pieces with chopped onions and cucumbers in vinegar. Holland’s colonial past has affected the taste of the inhabitants of Amsterdam in particular are very popular dishes of meat and Suriname rijsttafel (white rice with side dishes of vegetables and meat) in Indonesia. In Amsterdam you can find the culinary traditions from around the world.
Amsterdam has a lively nightlife, with numerous private parties in addition to clubs and public places. The new slogan that the city administration chose in 2004 to promote the image of Amsterdam I Amsterdam. The old slogan was heeft het Amsterdam (Amsterdam has it).
