Vondelpark
Beloved forty-seven-hectare English-landscape park with winding paths, open lawns, ponds, and a famed open-air theatre.
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This guide to Vondelpark in Amsterdam opens in 1873, when brewer Gerard Adriaan Heineken asked to open a bar in the park and the park committee refused. It looks back to the Zocher father and son who shaped farmland into an English-style landscape in 1865, and to the poet whose bronze statue gave the park its name. Along the way you'll notice the parakeets in the trees and the ground that has been slowly sinking. Best heard while walking the winding paths, with the poet's statue as a landmark.
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