The picturesque city centre, with its museums, galleries and network of Unesco -preserved 17th-century canals, is an obvious draw. But, off the regular tourist track, in Amsterdam's vibrant ...

Accessible via Trams 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 14 and 17. Known as one of the most delightful areas in Amsterdam, the Canal Belt, which is a series of canals which wrap around the city center, is a lovely ...

LONDON, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From Beyonce Boulevard to Ada Lovelace Lane, a feminist group is rewriting the map of Amsterdam after discovering that nearly 90 percent of the city's ...

AMSTERDAM, March 16 (Reuters) - The city of Amsterdam will allow residents of its historic centre to offer their homes to tourists again, after a court ordered it to scrap a ban on vacation rentals.

Map via Wikimedia Commons. Below is the Castello Plan, the original city map of New Amsterdam created by Jacques Cortelyou in 1660. You can spot the inlet with three bridges spanning it: ...