Everything along the way
3 · Canal houses
The Golden Bend
The grandest stretch of the Herengracht, where the merchants built double-wide houses with stone fronts.
- About
- Built from 1663
- From the boat
- The widest houses on the ring, lit from inside after dark
Between the Leidsestraat and the Vijzelstraat the Herengracht bends, and here the richest merchants bought two plots side by side to build double-wide houses with stone fronts.
After dark many of them are lit from inside, and you can see the painted ceilings from the boat.
Cruises that pass here
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Markets · Floating since 1862
Flower market
The floating flower market on the Singel, on barges since the 1860s.
Bridges · Dug in 1664
Reguliersgracht
The canal of seven bridges in a row, lit with strings of lamps at night.
Bridges · Stone bridge from 1884
Blauwbrug
The Amstel's grand stone bridge with lamps on crowned columns.