Flevopark
Leafy park in Amsterdam East with a working 1880 distillery, pond-side terraces, and a centuries-old Jewish cemetery at its edge.
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This guide to Flevopark in Amsterdam begins with a steam pump house that drained the polders of eastern Amsterdam for a century, before falling silent in 1984 and standing empty for twenty-five years. It follows the building's second life as a jenever distillery inside the restored Gemaal, and an older, quieter history at the park's edge: the Zeeburg Jewish Cemetery, founded in 1714. Listen for how the park's own history stretches back to land diked centuries before it became a park.
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