Walking routes

Walk from story to story

Six free routes along the places where it happened. Every stop is a story on this site, so you read the fact while standing in front of it. With a map on your phone, a GPX file for your watch and a Google Maps link for turn-by-turn directions.

De Pijp De Pijp: beer, gnomes and a hotel built under protest A short loop through the neighbourhood officially called District YY. From the old Heineken brewery and the square that could not be named... 2,2 km41 min5 stops Zuidas Zuidas: the skyline with a height limit Why nobody here may build higher than 105 metres, how a Saab garage fetched ten million guilders and why the main street got a composer's... 3,7 km69 min8 stops City centre Canal ring and Leidseplein: gold, squats and rock and roll Along the Singel that was briefly called Koningsgracht, the Golden Bend of the richest Amsterdammers and the Leidsestraat where cars once... 4,0 km94 min16 stops City centre Around the Dam: the oldest Amsterdam From Damrak, once a straight stretch of water, past the castle under Nieuwezijds Kolk to the Dam with its executions, riots and Christmas... 4,2 km101 min18 stops City centre Jewish Quarter and Plantage: the city that vanished and came back The narrowest house, the canal where Amsterdamned was filmed, the house that stopped a motorway and the most hated building in town. Past... 4,8 km92 min11 stops South South: from the Rijksmuseum to the Olympic Stadium Under the Rijksmuseum where the shortest motorway in the Netherlands once ran, through the Vondelpark that sits two metres below the... 7,7 km133 min12 stops

How it works

Open a route on your phone, press "Start the walk" and the map follows you. At every stop you get the fact in two lines and a link to the full story. Lost? The Google Maps button gives you turn-by-turn directions between the stops.