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Mayors, singers, slum landlords and brewery widows: the people who made Amsterdam, and sometimes broke it a little.

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The mayors of Amsterdam

From Femke Halsema back to the regents of the Golden Age: who ran the city, and what do we remember them for?

46 mayors6 eras8 with their own story

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Who exactly was Marie Heineken?

Behind the Heineken brewery on the Stadhouderskade lies the Marie Heinekenplein. This square was created in the early 1990s when the area behind the brewery was redeveloped. The...

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