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A DAY IN NIEUWE ZIJDE
Centraal
Station
De Drie Damrak
Fleschjes
Nieuwe Beurs van
Kerk Berlage
Koninklijk Dam Square
Greek terracotta mask, Paleis
Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam
Museum Kalverstraat
Allard Pierson Museum
9 Begijnhof
MAP N5 • Oude Turfmarkt 127
Spui
• 020 525 2556 • Open 10am–5pm MORNING
Mon–Fri, 1–5pm Sat, Sun & public
hols • Closed 1 Jan, Easter Sun, Spend the morning in the
Whitsunday, 27 Apr, 25 Dec Amsterdam Museum (see pp30–
• Admission charge 33), although a morning is
• www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl scarcely enough. When you feel
like a break, leave the main
Located in a stately Neo-Classical building and head for the
building built in the 1860s as a bank, Kalverstraat entrance, where the
this small museum was named after café-restaurant David and Goliath
the University of Amsterdam’s first is on your left. Make sure that you
Professor of Classical Archaeology, keep your ticket so that you can
and contains its archaeological re-enter the museum without
having to pay again. The end of
collection. Fascinating exhibits the tour brings you to the
include Egyptian mummies and excellent museum shop. Rather
sarcophagi, Coptic clothes, Cypriot than leaving by one of the exits,
jewellery, Greek geometric and red- cut through the Civic Guards’
figured pottery, Etruscan metalwork Gallery to the Begijnhof (see
and Roman glassware and statuary. pp26–7), and while away some
time in this secluded place. Come
Spui
0 out of the Gedempte Begijnen-
sloot entrance and turn the
MAP M5
This small square, lined corner into Spui, where you might
lunch at Café Hoppe (see p90) or
with cafés, bars and Café Luxembourg (Spui 24).
bookshops, bursts into
life at lunchtime and AFTERNOON
again in the evening, when After lunch, walk down
people spill out onto the Kalverstraat, the district’s main
pavement from bars. Cheek shopping street, to Dam Square,
by jowl with university where you could visit the
buildings, Spui has long Koninklijk Paleis (see p40) as well
been a place where as the Nieuwe Kerk (see p40).
intellectuals gather to Then take a break among the tiny
Het Lieverdje, drink and debate. There shops built into the buttresses of
Spui the church in Gravenstraat; at
is also a Friday book
market. In the Provo riots of the No.18, De Drie Fleschjes is one
of the oldest proeflokalen (tasting
1960s (see p45), the square was the houses) for Dutch gin, dating
scene of political protests, during from 1650. When you are revived,
which Carol Kneulman’s statue of an walk down Damrak past the
urchin, Het Lieverdje (Little Darling), Beurs van Berlage to finish your
was frequently daubed with slogans. day at the Centraal Station,
At No. 18, Café Hoppe (see p90) is a where you can hop on a tram
landmark brown café that has been back to your hotel.
in business since 1670.
See map on p86
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