Market
Flower Market
Singel 630, 600 Amsterdam
Floating flower market on the Singel canal, selling tulip bulbs and blooms from permanently moored barges since eighteen sixty-two.
This guide to the Flower Market in Amsterdam begins in early 1637, when tulip traders across the Netherlands found their fortunes upended overnight. It follows the striped Semper Augustus bulb that made a single flower worth an Amsterdam canal house, and the weavers, carpenters and chimney sweeps who sold their belongings to join the trade. Pick up a bulb from one of the stalls while you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.