Amsterdam Canals
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Amsterdam’s canals
Amsterdam is the “Venice of the North” for more than a hundred kilometers from the Canal Company, referred to some 90 islands and 1500 bridges. The three main canals dug, Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht, in 17 century when the Dutch Golden Age, concentric belt around the city as a form of the canals-known. Together with the main canal ring area landmark built in 1550 from 17 Century, including the Prinsengracht, Keizersgracht, Herengracht and the Jordaan. Placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Most of the Amsterdam canal system is a successful outcome of city planning. In the early 17th Century, the rest with immigration at the joint comprehensive plan calls for four and a half circle concentric with the channel they aim at the IJ bay. Known as the “Canal” are the three most channels and channels for housing development, four beyond, Singel, for purposes of defense and water management. The plan also describes the interconnection channel along the radius, a series of parallel canals in the Jordaan quarter (primarily for transportation of goods such as beer) from the conversion of the canal, the scale is in (Single) defensive purpose to residential and commercial development and more than a hundred bridges. Defensive goal of the Nassau / Stadhouderskade served by the ditch embankment and land, with gates at transit points but otherwise there are no walls of the building.
Construction started from west to east, lying on the stage like a giant windshield wiper as the historian Geert Mak calls it – has no exit from the center as a popular myth there. North-west sector development started in 1613 and was completed around 1625. After 1664, construction began in the southern sector, albeit slowly because of an economic depression. The eastern part of the concentric canal plan for the area between the River Amstel and the IJ bay, was not created for a long time. In the next century, the country mainly to the park, botanical gardens, old houses, theaters and other public facilities – Polder and identified for the water channel without the plans of many cities and urban areas. means by the sea “lake” Postfix-, as Aalsmeer, Bijlmermeer, Haarlemmermeer and Watergraafsmeer.
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