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We recently stayed at the incredible Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam. I took this picture at sunset, handheld on a rocking boat. I'm glad the Sony a7ii has a stabilizer built in.
I was in a bar, in Greece when I turned around and a beautiful lady was smiling at me.... I couldn't resist taking her picture... :-)
The City Hall in Nieuwer-Amstel is a Neo renaissance building built in 1889-1892 overlooking the Amstel. It was the seat of the city of Nieuwer-Amstel's government, but after absorption into the municipality of Amsterdam in 1896, it became a location for the Amsterdam City Archives in 1914
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AMSTERDAM - The River Amstel is a river in the Netherlands which flows from Nieuwveen to Amsterdam, where it meets in the past the IJ bay, now Rokin. The City of Amsterdam took its name from the river.
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The tower was originally part of the Regulierspoort, one of the main gates in Amsterdam's medieval city wall. The gate, built in the years 1480, consisted of two towers and a guard house.
After the gate went up in flames in a 1618 fire, only the guard house and part of the western tower remained standing. The tower was then rebuilt in Amsterdam Renaissance style in 1620,[1] with an eight-sided top half and elegant open spire designed by Hendrick de Keyser,[1] featuring a clockwork with four clockfaces and a carillon of bells.
The name of the tower refers to the fact that the guard house on side of it was used to mint coins in the 17th Century. In the Rampjaar ("disastrous year") of 1672, when both England and France declared war on the Dutch Republic and French troops occupied much of the country, silver and gold could no longer be safely transported to Dordrecht and Enkhuizen (where coins were normally minted), so the guard house of the Munttoren was temporarily used to mint coin.
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