Westerkerk
Dutch Renaissance Protestant church from sixteen thirty-one, where Rembrandt was buried in a rented grave now lost to history.
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This guide to the Westerkerk in Amsterdam follows Rembrandt van Rijn, who rented a grave here for fifteen guilders after dying bankrupt in 1669, a year after his son Titus was buried in the same church. You'll hear what happened when that twenty-year lease ran out and his daughter couldn't renew it. It also turns toward the Prinsengracht a few doors away, where Anne Frank once wrote about loving the sound of this church's bells.
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