Amsterdam on fire!
A reconstruction of Amsterdam in the late middleages, before the big fires in the 1400s.
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.
The Miracle of Amsterdam
The beginning of tourism in 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…
The Cog seal
The seal of Amsterdam It takes a trained eye to recognise them everywhere in the city. The seal of Amsterdam. Why a ship? Who are the people depicted on it…
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.
Birth Certificate of Amsterdam
The First Amsterdammer
The first document mentioning Amsterdam - dated 1275 - marks the end of the pre-historical unwritten story of the city. How did Amsterdam look, just before this so called birth…
Pre-Historical Amsterdam
It doesn't happen every day that the first pages of a city's history, the very beginning, have to be rewritten. Not so long ago this was the case for pre-historical Amsterdam.