Skinny Bridge
Iconic wooden bascule bridge over the Amstel, lit by twelve hundred bulbs and famed as Amsterdam's most romantic crossing.
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This guide to the Skinny Bridge in Amsterdam opens in 1672, the year the Dutch call the Disaster Year, when city planners had drawn up a grand stone bridge over the Amstel and the treasury emptied before it could be built. Amsterdammers tell a sweeter story instead, of two sisters on opposite banks who built the narrowest bridge they could afford just to visit each other.
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