Rembrandt’s Amsterdam – 750 years after the birth of the city walks on the Amstel River | Amsterdam Holidays

FOr visitors looking for natural walking paths, the North Dutch province is perhaps a obvious choice. The landscape famous local pancakes and plitoresque mountains, forests and waterfalls are insufficient.

However, go to the rural area in the south of Amsterdam and find beautiful walking paths in the most perfect Dutch view of green fields, windmills and waterways. It walks along the Amstel River, which flows to North Amsterdam, and also offers the opportunity to follow famous footprints. Rembrandt Van Rijn lived close to the river in most of his life, liked to walk his banks, where he produced some beautiful paintings here. Amsterdam is a good moment to see the city from another angle along the waterway that gives the city the city to the city to celebrate its birthday in June.

My walk on Rembrandt’s footsteps begins at Ouderk Aan de Amstel, a small town, a few miles south of Amsterdam. Ouderk is not big but extremely pleasant; A Warren of narrow brick streets gathered by the river stands in the center like a long church tower and an attempted drawing pin. I don’t stay for a long time but I take a minute Beth Haim Jewish CemeteryDozens of old tombstones lean on soft grass. Near near, the streets are full of excavators who stack the sandbags and warning signs: Drop Op! Drijfzand (Watch out! Quicksand) – reminding that most of the region I will walk has been recovered from water for centuries and today is below sea level.

I leave Ouderkerk, I walk north to the north along a narrow pebble that follows Amstel like a handrail. Birds go into long hopes on the river and come out and rowers are standing in front of the water like scitter insects. Nevertheless, in spite of all this movement, Amstel itself is as calm as a mill pond – you can barely say that many water paths move on a land without hills.

As walking north, Amstel is at first covered with terrace houses, but the landscape opens soon and offers landscapes in the emerald fields beyond the raised river shores. In the Golden Age of Amsterdam in the 17th century, most of the wealthy traders of the city had weekend houses here. Today, most of the old houses have been replaced with modern mansions, but there is still a magnificent creation of the 18th century, a swept driver. I take a photo and if my little book about Amsterdam becomes the best sellers, I solve that I will buy a palace here.

I continue to north a stone linker as high as a house, scraped with words Terminal. By examining my map Banpaal (forbidden pole) to mark the outer border of Amsterdam, which is forbidden to pass any criminal forbidden from the city. Rembrandt as a fame fame and love mouse may be lucky to avoid being driven. There is a beautiful windmill by drawing on a knee, next to a mile or a large bend on a large bend on the river, on a large rembrandt statue kneeling on the grass on the hats and cloaks. When I look at the south, I see a view that has not changed much since Rembrandt’s scraping in 1641: a wrinkled meadow, a thin thin church tower from a distance and a small boat that sails along the river.

Five miles after leaving Ouderkerk, I come to Amsterdam. After the presence of the countryside, the chaos of the city comes as a shock. The narrow riverside trail is replaced by tram, joggers, cars and cyclists with large streets. Here, the Amstel is perhaps as wide as half of the Thames River and is covered with large old sailing barns converted into Houseboes. Rembrandt drew another picture showing this area known as omval, and a large tree stood like a fist by the river. These days look quite different. Immediately after the middle of the week, the restaurant terraces facing Amstel are full of people who drink white wine and eat expensive salads. Some Dutch The shortest hours in Europeand shows.

I continue north H’ART MuseumAs of April 9, he will host an Rembrandt exhibition. Then I pass the river over the glorious Blauwbrug or non -blue blue bridge. Rembrandt Drew A famous view of Amstel from Blauwbrug In the late 1640s, now in Rijksmuseum. When I look at the West, I see Rembrandt’s boss six Jand Waterside house. If you ask well, a few weeks ago ( Six collections website), it can be allowed to enter. Portrait Rembrandt made six January In 1654, now SO SO SO SO SO SEE TO THE River Careful Eye.

After a short deviation to see the large Rembrandt statue in the touristic Rembrandtplein, I go from Amstel to Nieuwmarkt, a wide square by bars and cafes. Dominant ScrapingBuilding a big tarete. Rembrandt created one of his most famous works, DR Nicolaes Tulp Anatomy LessonHe shows that the doctors who examine the body of a criminal criminal. Near near, in Nieuwe Doelenstraat, you can also see the point where Rembrandt has delivered the most famous works: Night time.

I walk south throughout the Sintoniesbreestraat. It is hard to miss my last stop: There is a beautiful front of the 17th century on a street of ugly modern buildings; A five -storey brick mansion with red blinds in windows like the doors on a advent calendar. This is the house where Rembrandt has lived for about twenty years A museum. The interior is largely a modern reconstruction, but when you see the sunny studio where it paints the most famous art in history, it is hard not to feel a tremor of excitement.

The museum is closing and I go to Sluyswacht, a pub, just opposite the street in a small locker who seems to be removed from the pages of a fairy tale. This is not as old as Rembrandt – it was built 26 years after death – but it is definitely one of the most paintoresque bars in Europe. I live next to the channel, I drink Pilsje Eat and think of beer and a plate of cheese: it had a good taste.

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