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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Amsterdam

3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Amsterdam.

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UNESCO sites in Amsterdam

  • Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the SingelgrachtCultural · 2010 · 1 km

    The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new ‘port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south …

  • Dutch Water Defence LinesCultural · 1996 · 8 km

    The Dutch Water Defence Lines represents a defence system extending over 200 km along the edge of the administrative and economic heartland of Holland. It is comprised of the New Dutch Waterline and the Defence Line of A…

  • Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)Cultural · 1999 · 19 km

    The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is is an exceptional example of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. It has preserved intact its well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, dykes and settlemen…

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