The Zwanenburgwal is a canal and street in the center of Amsterdam. During the Dutch Golden Age the canal was home to painter Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as philosopher Spinoza lived here. In 2006 it
The Zwanenburgwal, looking south towards the Amstel
The Zwanenburgwal, looking north
Amsterdam Oude Zijds Kolk
Vlooienburg or Vloonburg was a filled-in island in the Amstel river on the site of the Stopera in Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, a lively migrant neighborhood emerged here with timber traders,
Drawing of the interior of the Talmud Torah at Houtgracht (1664), demolished in 1931
Archeologists at Waterlooplein (1981)