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A few blocks down the street from the Museumplein, where the attractions of the museum and the Van Gogh Museum of thousands of tourists every day, the largest park and popular Amsterdam. Vondelpark is a park-city feel with its white-traveled dirt roads bleeding on the grass and observe, sometimes sandy shell around the band after the concert. This should be out of the park, expect a large number of visitors, many steps in the handles events of the summer, and is the focal point for concrete and asphalt city differently. (Well, look at the arteries Amdam fairways, but was not a lazy afternoon picnic by the lake in a canoe fans.)

While the atmosphere of the city park Vondelpark and many of the best facilities. Ponds and streams, through narrow streets where the width of runners and cyclists to cross busy their morning rituals. If you want to practice, many of the companies. Otherwise, get a place in the sun or the shade of a tree and watched some traditional people. Will the sight line in the Vondelpark able to dictate. Walking along the dusty track draws attention to the profound silence of the park, along the largest lagoons in the nature of the installation of migratory birds (camera in hand to give you some good pictures of frames) took place.

Vondelpark is rectangular, long and narrow. Begins to narrow entrance of the canal at one channel, when the water taxi (to the east and west of the station). If you go down a long staircase to the end of the canal to the park, you feel that change in the noise and activity of the self employed / slow relaxation of the structure. A long stone walk through the residential area where many small hotels and guest houses within walking distance of the park. The buildings on both sides at the bottom of the tree to draw the eye to expand the horizon of the hidden field. Customers with disabilities get a pitch to get free housing and you can get in and around the park with ease.

After about a mile in length and 200 meters wide, has enough room for fresh Vondelpark long walks on the grass barefoot, throwing the ball with the children, most banks are quietly downstream, walking slowly along the time, winding forest, or active exercise in open field. If the total distance is a way to get through its thick forests of the southern section of walking, it feels as if she left home. As best anyone can ask from a city park.

You will not find a huge bouquet of flowers, gardens or dramatic Vondelpark. The park, which will be used on grass or pavement. Beauty in nature: trees, lakes, streams, forests and open fields comfortable.

If the people of Amsterdam (Netherlands) I think you’ll find some images almost automatically.

On one side the image of “primitive”, such as cheese, clogs and windmills in Holland. Instead, the image of “Amsterdam liberal” of drugs, prostitutes and homosexuals are out of control.

What is true for everyone? What is myth and what is truth? And where you can get in and around Amsterdam? Let’s answer these questions once and for all.
Windmills?

It is true that up to 50 years, but the management of windmills celebrity in Holland. They are used to grind corn meal and land to cultivate. Mills Thus, the so-called hard water water wheel from the parts, the tops of the fund. This is the last thing even more important in a country that is about 50% below sea level.

Water mills and more miles mind Netherlands are often volunteers, but not in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A plurality of windmills in Zaanse a day of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Open Air Museum, where many authentic old houses, shops and factories, and asked to see rebuilt.
Tulips?

Fig Holland has a business from flower to flower, tulips and between them. In fact, the first speculative bubble in world history of Tulip Mania 1630í Amsterdam. Gold prices higher after the speculators to buy a tulip as they can find. The award was through the sky, until the bubble burst.

Parks, colorful tulips from Amsterdam, for example, Lisse. But in Amsterdam, and you can see the tulips and other flowers, the flower market on Singel purchase for example, between Koningsplein and Muntplein. Bulbs, as they are sold, so you can take home and plant them. It is open seven days a week (Monday to Saturday 9:00 to 5:30 pm clock, Sundays from 11:00 bis 30.05 Clock clock). Flower market in the boat house completely so there is the floating market.
Channel?

Fig Amsterdam has 165 canals of Venice. Dutch word “channel” (KHRAKH-Tun). Channels has been since the Middle Ages, originally built to protect the city. So, when Amsterdam was the richest city in the world trade, the channel used to transport goods by sea around the world for the course built around the canal. In 1612 began an ambitious expansion of the channel, and 50 years later, Amsterdam is the largest network of canals for transportation and storage best deliver more than 1,000 in the city.

Today you can drive a Damrak channel (off season) and the Leidseplein. He takes you through the most beautiful canals of Amsterdam. Virtually every corner of town to go by boat.
Anne Frank?

True God. It is true, of course, is famous Jewish girl hiding in a house on the Prinsengracht additional secret with family and others, with the help of four employees of the company from his father. Today you will visit the house back (also known as the Anne Frank House), three of the best museums in Amsterdam, attracted nearly one million visitors a year.

The New Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah was ordained in 1866. The church is in town until then Heidereutergasse ceased to serve the growing Jewish population.
The New Synagogue, with the seat in 3200, the home of the largest synagogue in Germany. New services in the synagogue were carried out according to the rites and practices of new calls, the most important indicators for the installation of the organ. These reforms are part of the service process of assimilation of the Jews.
Famous architect Eduard Knoblauch (1801-1865) found inspiration for the design of the Moorish-style synagogue in the Alhambra in Granada. Dome, gold push, and over 50 meters high filled, said that since the German border to use modern construction techniques.
In the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938 (“Kristallnacht”), the New Synagogue escaped serious damage. During World War II, but was much damaged by bombs. In 1958, the synagogue’s main hall demolished. Only parts of the building near the road was maintained.
In May 1995 the building was reopened with the permanent exhibition, “Open the door.”
Continuing the tradition of the New Synagogue, New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum is proposed as a bridge between past and future. Task Centre Judaicum up and explore the history of Jews in and around Berlin. The aim is to remember the achievements of the Jews and the Jewish victims of maintaining memory. Relevant documents stored, analyzed and published. In addition to temporary exhibitions permanent exhibitions that used to make concrete and visible Jewish history.