The 9 Streets
Grid of nine historic cross-streets between Amsterdam's main canals, once a leather-tanning quarter, now boutique shopping in a UNESCO Heritage area.
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This guide to the 9 Streets in Amsterdam starts on a small arched bridge on Wolvenstraat and goes back to the canal-digging years around 1612, when tanners worked the cross-streets. It reads the street signs for what they literally mean, then meets Djoeke Wessing, a shopkeeper who gave these lanes one name in the 1990s. Stand on the bridge to begin, and look up at the gabled houses leaning over the canal.
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