Amsterdam's Quiet Canals & Hidden Jordaan Walk

The stops

1. 01
   Begijnhof

   The Begijnhof is a fourteenth-century enclosed courtyard near the Spui in central Amsterdam, home to one of the city's last two remaining wooden house facades.

2. 02
   Wolvenstraat

   Wolvenstraat is a narrow seventeenth-century street running between Herengracht and Prinsengracht within Amsterdam's Nine Streets shopping district.

3. 03
   Leliegracht

   Leliegracht is a short seventeenth-century canal connecting Prinsengracht and Herengracht in Amsterdam's canal ring, laid out during the city's 1612 Third Expansion.

4. 04
   Westerkerk

   Westerkerk is a Dutch Protestant church on Prinsengracht, completed in 1631 to designs by Hendrick de Keyser and topped by the tallest church tower in Amsterdam.

5. 05
   Bloemgracht

   Bloemgracht is a seventeenth-century canal in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam, historically nicknamed the 'Herengracht of the Jordaan' for its grand facades.

6. 06
   Egelantiersgracht at Cafe 't Smalle

   Egelantiersgracht is a canal in the Jordaan district whose junction with Prinsengracht is home to Cafe 't Smalle, a former distillery tasting house dating to 1780.

7. 07
   Karthuizerhofje

   Karthuizerhofje, completed in 1650 to designs by city architect Daniel Stalpaert, is Amsterdam's largest seventeenth-century almshouse courtyard, built on the site of a former Carthusian monastery.

8. 08
   Palmgracht & Raepenhofje

   Palmgracht is a former Jordaan canal filled in during 1895 and now a tree-lined street that still contains the Raepenhofje, a seventeenth-century almshouse founded in 1648.

9. 09
   Brouwersgracht

   Brouwersgracht is a canal at the northern edge of Amsterdam's canal ring, named for the breweries that lined its banks from the late sixteenth century onward.

The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.