Amsterdam's Nine Streets Walk

Reestraat is one of the three parallel lanes that compose the Negen Straatjes, or the Nine Streets, in the heart of Amsterdam's canal belt. You can distinguish it by the narrow, multi-story brick buildings that line the cobbled pavement,…

Hartenstraat is one of the nine cross-streets that bridge the major canals of Amsterdam. While the name translates to Hearts Street, it actually derives from the old Dutch word for stag. This naming pattern echoes the history of the…

Gasthuismolensteeg takes its name from the Saint Elisabeth Hospital mill, which stood on the city wall here during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to grind grain for the institution. The street now serves as one of the nine small…

Berenstraat, or Bear Street, is one of nine narrow, historic thoroughfares that cut through the concentric rings of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century canal belt. These streets were laid out in the first half of the sixteen hundreds during…

Wolvenstraat is one of the nine short streets that bridge Amsterdam’s central canal belt, connecting the Singel, Herengracht, Keizersgracht, and Prinsengracht. You can pick it out by the narrow, historic seventeenth-century canal houses…

Oude Spiegelstraat sits within the Nine Streets neighborhood of Amsterdam, connecting the Singel canal to the Herengracht. You can distinguish the street by the narrow, historic townhouse fronts that characterize this part of the city,…

Runstraat is a narrow street lined with seventeenth-century canal houses, distinguished by its name which translates from Dutch as Cow Street. It is one of the nine small passages that crisscross the western Canal Belt, a network laid out…

Huidenstraat, or Hide Street, is one of the nine small historic streets that crisscross Amsterdam’s canal belt. These streets were designed in the early seventeenth century as connecting passages between the major canals of the city. The…