Amsterdam

1

Joods Historisch Museum

A museum founded in 1932 is already an admission of something—that the city outside its doors has stopped telling a particular story on its…

2

Nieuwe Herengracht

1662. The city is still expanding eastward, ink barely dry on the plans, and someone decides that this new canal deserves the most prestigious name Amsterdam has to offer — Herengracht. The canal of the lords. Except…

3

Nieuwe Keizersgracht

1662. The city is still expanding eastward, and someone in a municipal office decides to name a new canal after a Holy Roman Emperor who died a century and a half before the first shovel broke ground…

4

Amstelhof

In October 1680, a wealthy Amsterdam merchant named Barent Helleman died and left approximately 90,000 guilders to the Dutch Reformed Church. What the church did with that money tells you something essential about who…

5

Blauwbrug

1883. The city decided this crossing deserved more than wood and rope—it deserved stone, iron, and the full weight of civic…

6

Stopera

1986. Workers pour concrete and lay glass on a site that, forty years earlier, had been one of the most densely inhabited neighborhoods in Amsterdam. The building rising here would be called the Stopera—a portmanteau…

7

Rembrandt House Museum

1639. A painter with money to spend and ambitions to match signs the deed on a house in Jodenbreestraat — the broad street at the heart of Amsterdam's Jewish Quarter — and moves in his canvases, his etching press, and…

8

Jodenbreestraat

1593. That's when this street first appears in the city's records — a year before many of the families who would define it had even arrived. The name came later, earned slowly, block by…

9

Uilenburgergracht

The water here doesn't announce itself. It simply reappears — a narrow channel cutting through the Lastage neighborhood, east of the old city center, reminding you that before there were streets, there were…

10

Markengracht

By 1968, the city had made its decision. The Markengracht — a canal that had run through the heart of one of Amsterdam's poorest Jewish neighborhoods for centuries — was filled in. Not drained. Filled. Buried under…

11

Markenplein

1970. Someone in a city planning office crossed out a name on a map and wrote a new one. The square you're standing in used to be called het oude Markenpleintje — the old little Marken square. A diminutive name,…

12

Mozes en Aäronkerk

The name on the facade says one thing. The history underneath says…

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 60 minuten lopen, met 12 stops over 3.3 km. Je kunt pauzeren en later verder gaan waar je gebleven was.

Wat komt er voorbij in de audiotour van Amsterdam?

12 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
Amsterdam90 min · 16 stops