Coming of age – Amsterdam 1345-1421
Between the mid-1300s and a century later Amsterdam was ‘coming of age’. In this blog we talk about the success factors of Medieval Amsterdam.
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The Miracle of Amsterdam
Every year, on one weekend in mid-March around midnight, large groups of people march through the oldest streets of Amsterdam. The shops on the Kalverstraat and Nieuwedijk have closed long ago. It’s also not the bars on the Warmoesstraat or the theatres they’re after. The quiet men and women are gathered from all over the…
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Gijsbrecht van Amstel
The successful but young city of Amsterdam needed the narrative of a glorious past. Joost van den Vondel found it with his Gijsbrecht van Amstel.
