Amsterdam

1

Joods Historisch Museum

Four synagogues, one building complex — and the question they collectively pose is still the right one to start with: what does a neighborhood choose to…

2

Markenplein

For nearly four centuries, this square held the ordinary weight of a neighborhood — arguments over prices, children cutting through on errands, the particular silence of a Friday evening when the week slowed…

3

Markengracht

In 1968, the city filled in this canal—Markengracht—and poured concrete over it. What had been water for centuries became ground, and what had been a neighborhood became something else…

4

Auschwitzmonument

Three broken mirrors lie flat on the ground here — shards of sky, fragments of your own face looking…

5

Nieuwe Herengracht

In 1662, someone decided this water needed a name — and gave it the most obvious one available: the new Herengracht, the Nieuwe Herengracht, simply an extension of what already…

6

Nieuwe Keizersgracht

Sixteen sixty-two. The city is still building itself outward, ring by ring, as if Amsterdam believes expansion is a form of…

7

Amstelhof

In 1680, a wealthy merchant named Barent Helleman died and left roughly 90,000 guilders to the Dutch Reformed Church — an enormous sum, and a decision that would shelter hundreds of lives for…

8

Blauwbrug

In 1883, Amsterdam replaced a simple wooden drawbridge with this — stone, cast iron, lamp posts crowned like a royal procession frozen…

9

Thorbecke

The man on this pedestal rewrote the rules of who belonged in the Netherlands — and it cost him everything…

10

Annick van Hardeveld

May 4th, 1945. The war was already over in everything but paperwork — liberation was hours away. And on that day, a twenty-one-year-old courier was…

11

Oude Kerk

The statesman behind you made promises in marble. This one — a single name, a single date — shows what happened to those promises when they met the…

12

Zuiderkerkstoren

Seven hundred years before the promises and the memorials, before the names and the dates — this church was already…

13

Rembrandt House Museum

In 1639, Rembrandt van Rijn signed the deed on this house and immediately went into debt doing…

14

Uilenburg

In 1639, Rembrandt van Rijn signed the deed on this house and immediately went into debt doing it. What he bought wasn't just a home — it was a place inside the neighborhood he was about to paint into…

15

Jodenbreestraat

The painting you just stood in front of didn't come from nowhere. But it also didn't come from Rembrandt's imagination alone. The neighborhood that made those faces possible — that lived alongside the studio, that…

16

Mozes en Aäronkerk

Before this building had its columns, it had a secret. Priests gathered in a house on this very street, and two stone tablets — Moses on one side, Aaron on the other — marked the door of a hidden…

Dit zijn de openingsregels van elke stop. Het volledige verhaal — en de audio — hoor je in de app.

Hoe lang is de wandeling door Amsterdam?

Ongeveer 90 minuten lopen, met 16 stops over 6.7 km. Je kunt pauzeren en later verder gaan waar je gebleven was.

Wat komt er voorbij in de audiotour van Amsterdam?

16 ingesproken stops, te beginnen bij Joods Historisch Museum en eindigend bij Mozes en Aäronkerk. Elke stop speelt automatisch zodra je er bent.

Heb ik internet of mobiele data nodig?

Nee. Download de wandeling één keer in de PodWalk-app en het verhaal speelt volledig offline — handig tijdens het roamen in Nederland. Gps start elke stop zodra je aankomt.

Is de audiotour van Amsterdam gratis?

Je eerste wandeling in PodWalk is gratis. Daarna gaan wandelingen via eenmalige passen vanaf $2,99 — geen abonnement, niets wordt automatisch verlengd.

Kan ik de tour in mijn eigen tempo lopen?

Ja. Geen gids en geen schema — begin wanneer je wilt, blijf zo lang staan als je wilt, en de volgende stop start automatisch zodra je er bent.

Amsterdam60 min · 12 stops
Amsterdam60 min · 12 stops