Web Site: Partners in Travel. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organizes tours and excursions and especially for events
Amsterdam Events Company info@amsterdamevents.nl
Web Site: Amsterdam Events Company
Services: Specializes in tours of Amsterdam during special events.
Fietsen Netherlands
Services: tours, bike paths and routes
Cycletours cycletoursholland@cycletours.nl
Website: Cycletours Amsterdam, Holland and Belgium
Services: Offers reservations for boat tours and bike trips for hotel in town in the gold circle in the south of Holland, and among the tulips.
Amsterdam City Discovery
Web Site: Amsterdam City Discovery
Services: Serves Canal tours, and excursions on foot in the city.
ITB Holland sales@itbholland.com
Website: ITB Holland
Services: Offers tours, hotel reservations, events, restaurants.
Lindbergh info@lindbergh.nl
Website: Incoming Travel Agency Lindbergh
Services: In affiliation with museums and attractions, providing a comprehensive program at discount prices.
Local agencies, sometimes in collaboration with private transport, organize various kinds of excursions in Amsterdam : you can visit the city by day or night, on foot, by bus or boat through the Canal Bus in style “Jazz” or “Pizza Cruise.” Another tour boat has the goal of visiting Dutch villages and landscapes on the river IJsselmeer. Before returning to Amsterdam is expected to stop Muiden where you can visit the castle Muiderslot.
Basically most of the tours include or are limited to a boat trip along the canals offering a wide panoramic tour, is the best way to explore Amsterdam and be fascinated of its historical center rich elegant merchant houses with beautiful facades of the ‘600 and ‘700, churches, shops and warehouses dating back to the same century.
Centraal Station isd the starting point of any tour, as is also the point of arrival from all over the world. Central Station (1889) was built in Gothic style by architect Petrus Cuypers .
Behind the station is the island port of Amsterdam and the boat that connects downtown to the north of the city, across the Ij, an old loop of the Zuiderzee.
A barge reserved for pedestrians, (Veerboot) provides a free link between North Station and Amsterdam. The Station Square (Stationsplein) is very busy because it is the terminus of the tram, bus and boat-museum.
Van Gogh Museum is the famous museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the work of the great Dutch artist Van Gogh.
To avoid queues, you should visit in the morning, perhaps after the opening, especially in summer.
Located in the so-called Paulus Potterstraat 7 in the Museum Quarter, is housed in a building situated near the Museumplein, a square surrounded by greenery and around which overlook other three famous institutions: the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and Hall of the Royal Concertgebow. The building was opened in 1973 to collect the works of the master, 10 years before they began the first construction project on Gerrit Rietveld which participated actively nephew Vincent Willem van Gogh as an engineer.
Towards the end of the 90 ‘was built a further extension of the museum designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, funded through a generous donation of a Japanese company. Outside shows the typical geometry typical of many construction de Stijl and spread over four levels which are ordered strictly the various sections that compose it.
Every year not less than one million tourists come to admire the complete and spectacular collection: more than 250 paintings and 500 drawings and watercolors, including 4 of 13 large canvases (50×100 cm.)
The museum includes a library, a reading room where you can consult freely art books about the artist and his contemporaries
No city like Amsterdam can boast of being the world capital of cycling. Bicycle lanes have appeared here about 50 years earlier than many other cities.The bike is the ideal way to move anywhere, often the fastest. In the 60s of last century, a movement called the Provos extolled the environmental benefits and logistics of this means of locomotion by providing all the hundreds of white-to-use bike and left in place,
Since 2005 there is a special map, prepared by the municipality of Amsterdam, for the use of bicycles in the city and its surroundings. The places open and passable in security and speed are shown in green. The sites a bit ‘less safe are indicated in pink.
Some years ago there were over 400,000 bike for about 724,000 inhabitants. With its miles of canals crossed by bridges, its flat configuration, cycle paths well-plotted and well-regulated movement, the city lends itself beautifully to this means of transport.
Many people choose to visit Amsterdam because of its reputation for tolerance, although part of this reputation is attributable to cultural misunderstandings. You can watch some pictures from Amsterdam, you can see the biggest city and the cultural and creative centre of the Netherlands.
Van Gogh Museum is the famous museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the work of the great Dutch artist Van Gogh.
No city like Amsterdam can boast of being the world capital of cycling. Bicycle lanes have appeared here about 50 years earlier than many other cities.The bike is the ideal way to move anywhere, often the fastest. In the 60s of last century, a movement called the Provos extolled the environmental benefits and logistics of this means of locomotion by providing all the hundreds of white-to-use bike and left in place,