How much of the wealth came from trading in people, and who remembers it?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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The initials VOC and WIC raise questions about the origins of part of Amsterdam's wealth. This theme connects colonial trade, slavery and remembrance. City locations provide a way into the people and activities involved, without separating buildings and profits from the histories that made them possible or from the question of how they're remembered.
In “From Leidseplein to Museumplein”: A theatre that came to this square running from fire, with a front that still keeps rich and poor apart.
In “The Jordaan”: You finish in the Noordermarkt, the square where the neighbourhood rose three times, in front of the plaque to the evening of 24 February 1941, and beside a boy from a novel who takes you back to where you began.
In “The old harbour and the VOC”: From the harbour to the boardroom, follow the trade that transformed Amsterdam.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Amsterdam. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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You finish in the Noordermarkt, the square where the neighbourhood rose three times, in front of the plaque to the evening of 24 February 1941, and beside a boy from a novel who takes you back to where you began.
From the harbour to the boardroom, follow the trade that transformed Amsterdam.
A theatre that came to this square running from fire, with a front that still keeps rich and poor apart.
On the Heiligeweg, the gateway of a house of correction where prisoners rasped wood for dye, and the flooding cell people were already talking about in the eighteenth century, which nobody has ever proved.
By the water, a tower from the old city wall carries a legend of weeping women, already put into verse in 1671, and a plaque about Henry Hudson that gets its date wrong.
Canals, bridges and narrow façades invite aimless walks. Enjoy them attentively: between the water, trams and bicycles, the best place to look is a clear patch of pavement.
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