A free forty-five-minute walk through Amsterdam's medieval core, past the Oude Kerk and a church hidden in an attic.
Strip the reputation away and what remains is the part of Amsterdam that predates everything else: cobbles, leaning gabled fronts and a canal plan laid out long before the ring was dug. The Oude Kerk stands in the middle of it and is the oldest building the city still has, while Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder is a few minutes away with a whole church folded into its roof space. There is nothing to buy and nothing to book. Before you go, read our Red Light District and coffeeshops page: the conduct rules there are the whole of what a visitor needs to know, and they are not restated here.
Highlights
- Amsterdam's oldest streets
- Oude Kerk and Our Lord in the Attic
- Free, and no ticket to book
Insider tips
- →Read /essentials/red-light-district-and-coffeeshops before you walk in, not afterwards.
- →Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder and the Oude Kerk both sit inside these few streets, so build the walk around them.
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Where you'll find it
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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