Park Frankendael

This guide to Park Frankendael in Amsterdam follows Izaak Balde, the Amsterdam merchant who bought this estate in 1695 and named it after Frankenthal, the German town that once sheltered his grandfather. It traces the slow build of the white manor house between 1659 and 1733, the bronze figures of Bacchus and Ceres sculpted in 1714, and the Gildemeester family who summered here through the 1700s. Look for the coat of arms Jan Gildemeester Janszoon stamped on the entrance gate in 1783.