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Located in the Netherlands, Amsterdam's Canal Ring became a UNESCO site in 2010. With 165 canals, Amsterdam is the city with the most canals in the world. When Amsterdam was built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, the canals drained swampland to allow for the development of the new port city.
The spire of the Westerkerk was completed in 1638 and is is the highest church tower in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, at 85 m (279 ft).
The floating Tulip Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The Astoria building in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, built in 1904-05, is a reserved style of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) that came to be known as "New Art" (Nieuwe Kunst). Typical Art Nouveau engravings appear in the grey stone around the doorway.
View along Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, a street (formerly a canal) in the heart of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
In capital city of the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Centraal railway station overlooks the city's harbor.
A wooden shoe-shaped boat on an Amsterdam canal in the Netherlands.
A series of bridges spanning an Amsterdam canal in the Netherlands.
The bicycle parking ramp near Centraal Station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, holds 7,000 bikes.
Zuiderkirk is a 17th-century church located in the heart of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam’s city center is ringed by canals, reflecting its early history as a seagoing country. The Prinsengracht canals serve as one of the primary canal rings around Old Town Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Spiegelgracht canal sits along the path from the Rijksmuseum to Amsterdam's city center in the Netherlands.
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