Step Into History
Walk Amsterdam in 1550
AI rebuilds Amsterdam street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Walled Amsterdam, 1550
This is Amsterdam before the seventeenth‑century canal ring: a compact, walled river-port clustered at the mouth of the Amstel. The walk moves from the IJ and Damrak's inner harbour through the Dam and church squares into the dense lanes of timber houses, markets, convent courts and the Waag.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Amsterdam as it stood in 1550 (“History of Amsterdam”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. The IJ Harbour
- ↳ Shipwright's Loft · interior
- 2. Sint Antoniespoort Gate
- 3. Zeedijk Quay
- 4. Damrak Inner Harbour
- ↳ Herring Packer's Quay House · interior
- 5. The Dam
- 6. Nieuwe Kerk, Damfront
- ↳ High Choir with Civic Benches · interior
- 7. Oudezijds Voorburgwal
- ↳ Waterside Tavern Longroom · interior
- 8. Oude Kerk Churchyard
- ↳ Ship-Keel Vaulted Nave · interior
- 9. Warmoesstraat
- ↳ Dyers' Vat Room · interior
- 10. Grimburgwal Canal
- ↳ Printers' Workshop · interior
- 11. Spui Waterside
- 12. Begijnhof Court
- ↳ Begijnhof Chapel · interior
- 13. Kalverstraat Market
- 14. Nieuwendijk
- 15. Rokin (Amstel)
- ↳ Merchant's Counting House · interior
- 16. Kloveniersburgwal
- 17. Kloveniersdoelen Exterior
- ↳ Kloveniers Company Hall · interior
- 18. Waag on Nieuwmarkt
- ↳ Surgeons' Guild Chamber · interior
- ↳ Weighing Hall · interior
- 19. Nieuwmarkt Square
- 20. Oudezijds Achterburgwal
- 21. Geldersekade Quayside
- 22. City Ramparts Bulwark