history
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Bridge 85 is two bridges: an 1883 iron footbridge over…
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Bridge 83 was built in 1882 over the Vijzelgracht and…
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The Prince’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Working Ring, the Annexe at Number…
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The Emperor’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Broadest Ring, Its Museums of Light…
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The Gentlemen’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Richest Address, the Golden Bend, and…
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The Fire Brigade Bridge: Brug 79 Over the Boerenwetering, and…
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The Architect’s Bridge: Brug 77, the Achtergracht, and the Best…
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A Fixed Bridge in the Utrechtsestraat, Where a Seventeenth-Century Sluice…
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The Moat That Became an Address: Amsterdam’s Oldest Canal, Its…
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For millennia, bridges have served as the vital connective tissue…
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This post explores the era when Amsterdam was less of…
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Welcome to my personal catalogue of the spans that connect…
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If you walk through Amsterdam long enough, you will eventually…
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For centuries, the rhythm of Amsterdam was set by the…
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The 1721 map by the renowned publishing house of Covens…
