Amstelpark
Sprawling park born from a 1972 world flower fair, with themed gardens, a historic windmill, and a Rembrandt bronze.
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This guide to Amstelpark in Amsterdam traces a park the city built in 1972 for a single flower fair, the Floriade, meant to vanish once the season ended. Four million visitors moved through the roses and rhododendrons that spring, and at the park's far edge stands a seventeenth-century windmill where a young Rembrandt used to walk out and sketch along the Amstel.
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