Amsterdam architecture, view from the Damrak looking East, The dancing canal or grachtenhuizen
The ‘dancing houses’ are just a few of the many canal houses or grachtenhuizen that tower above the waterways of Amsterdam. Amsterdam’s canal district, an area of the city that turned 400 in 2013, and in 2010 was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Construction of the grachtengordel was a massive undertaking and consisted of a half-circle of three concentric canals, Herengracht, Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht, each lined with canal houses, and expanding out from the moat-like waterway called Singel, part of the city’s early defenses.
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