Netherlands
Amsterdam, hand-curated: four concentric canals wrapped around a medieval core, the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh at one end of a single square, the rooms where a family hid for two years, and free ferries to the old shipyards — one neighbourhood a day, every fact verified before you fly.
Regions of Amsterdam
Centrum & De Wallen
The medieval core and the oldest streets in the city — a royal palace facing a working square, a fourteenth-century church with a red-light district grown around it, and a hidden almshouse courtyard two minutes from the crowds.
Grachtengordel & Jordaan
The seventeenth-century canal ring and the working-class quarter beside it, now the city's most photographed streets — a house where a family hid for two years, a church tower you can climb, and nine little shopping lanes between the canals.
Museumkwartier & Vondelpark
Three major collections and a concert hall around one grassy square, with the city's biggest park behind them — the Dutch Golden Age in one building, Van Gogh's own hand in the next, and modern art across the plaza.
De Pijp
A dense nineteenth-century grid that became the city's kitchen — the longest daily street market in the Netherlands, a brewery turned attraction at its edge, and more terraces per block than anywhere else in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam-Noord
Across the water and reached by free ferry — former shipyards turned studios and festival grounds, a film museum shaped like a hull, and the only place in the city where you can swing off the roof of a tower.
Plantage & Oosterdok
The green, museum-heavy pocket east of the centre — a botanical garden the Dutch East India Company stocked, a zoo older than most European capitals', the resistance museum facing it, and the maritime collection in the admiralty's old storehouse on the water.