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Experience Amsterdam in full tulip bloom

March 30, 20231842 Views

Private estate visits curated by Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky With Amsterdam approaching peak tulip season, Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam is inviting travellers to take a deep dive into the history of the country's favourite bloom while admiring tulips’ kaleidoscopic petals at pocket-sized botanical gardens, sprawling city parks and buzzing flower markets that lie at the heart of the industry. Anantara Krasnapolsky guests can choose from a collection of Anantara-curated bespoke itineraries designed in partnership with flower experts at Tulip Experience Amsterdam. A third-generation tulip-growing family business, Tulip Experience Amsterdam takes guests on a dynamic journey of discovery that covers everything from the bulb’s Ottoman origins and the fascinating t...

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Tivoli debuts in the Netherlands

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March 22, 2023997 Views

Launches historic Tivoli Doelen Amsterdam Hotel Tivoli Hotels & Resorts has just launched its first property in the Netherlands. The Tivoli Doelen Amsterdam Hotel is a XVI century property in the classicist style overlooking the Amstel Canal and is considered to be the oldest hotel in the Dutch capital. The original home to Rembrandt Van Rijn’s famous painting The Night Watch (which was completed in 1642) it hung on a wall inside one of the bedroom suites until it moved to the city’s famed Rijksmuseum. Centrally located in Amsterdam’s historic city centre, walking distance from the main touristic attractions, the heritage property has 81 guest rooms including seven suites, most of them overlooking the canal, and a new gastronomic concept in its elegant Omber restaurant and b...

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Amsterdam to ban cannabis outdoors in red-light district

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February 10, 2023907 Views

The city of Amsterdam, a popular destination for tourists who visit its marijuana coffee shops, will ban smoking cannabis in public in the red-light district as part of a campaign to clean up the area. Smoking the drug in the streets will be prohibited in a canal-lined section of town where there are brothels, sex shops and strip clubs, the city council said in a statement on Thursday. The move was called an "historic intervention" by Dutch Amsterdam's "Het Parool" newspaper and city council said the ban may be extended to the terraces of cannabis coffee shops at a later date. FILE PHOTO: A Dutch woman smokes a cannabis cigarette in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters It is part of a campaign by Amsterdam's first female mayor, Femke Halsema, to make the neig...

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Largest ever exhibition of Vermeer paintings to open in Amsterdam

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February 8, 20231057 Views

Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, known for his expertise at rendering light and intimate household scenes. Starting Friday, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is making their lives a whole lot easier. Director of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Taco Dibbits looks at Vermeer's painting 'Mistress and Maid' at an exhibition bringing together 28 works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in Amsterdam, Netherlands February 6, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw A blockbuster exhibition at the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history brings together 28 of Vermeer’s paintings from seven countries around the world. Not bad considering only 37 paintings are generally ascribed to the artist who lived from 1632-...

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Old Nazi map sparks treasure hunt in the Netherlands

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January 6, 2023661 Views

An old map believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of euros during World War Two sparked the imagination of amateur treasure hunters in the Netherlands this week. Armed with metal detectors and shovels, groups wandered through the fields surrounding rural Ommeren in the east of the country after the map was made public by the Dutch National Archive on Tuesday. A general view of a street in the Dutch village of Ommeren, Netherlands January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw The archive said the map was believed to indicate where Nazi soldiers had hidden four large boxes filled with diamonds, rubies, gold, silver and all sorts of jewellery which they had looted after an explosion at a bank in August 1944. The map was obtained from a German...

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Climate activists block private jet take-offs at Schiphol Airport

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November 5, 2022621 Views

More than 100 environmental activists wearing white suits stormed into an area where private jets are kept at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday and stopped several aircraft from departing by sitting in front of their wheels. The protest was part of a day of demonstrations in and around the airport organised by environmental groups Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion to protest over greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution caused by the airport and aviation industry. Climate activists protest against environmental pollution from aviation at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, in Schiphol, Netherlands November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw No delays to commercial flights were reported as of the early afternoon. "We want fewer flights, more trains and a ban on unnec...

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Anantara brings its experiential luxury to the Netherlands

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September 15, 2022885 Views

Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam has more than 155 years of history Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas brings its renowned experiential luxury to the Netherlands with Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam. Located in the city centre and with more than 155 years of history, the much-loved property is in the final stage of an extensive renovation as part of its transition to the luxury Anantara brand and now offers new contemporary guest rooms and suites, a brand-new Anantara Spa and fitness facilities, and a charming interior garden. Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam is located overlooking Dam Square and facing the Royal Palace, in a leafy square that is the beating heart of Amsterdam’s social scene. The magnificent building dates back to 1856, the year that a ...

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Huge crowds watch Amsterdam Pride’s canal parade celebration

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August 6, 2022400 Views

Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Amsterdam’s historic canals Saturday to celebrate Canal Parade, a flotilla of 80 brightly decorated boats packed with partying and singing people waving rainbow flags, balloons and umbrellas. Thousands of people lined canals in the Dutch capital to watch the colorful spectacle of the Pride Canal Parade return for the 25th edition after the last two events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) The boats representing rights groups, bars, clothing brands and even the Dutch military made their way slowly through the waterways in a resumption of the hugely popular LGBTQ Pride event after two years canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are looking forward to a s...

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Schiphol flights to be restricted to cut noise, emissions

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June 25, 2022427 Views

Airlines industry not happy with the decision by Dutch Government Flights from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will be limited to 440,000 a year, 11% less than in 2019, to cut noise pollution, the Dutch government said on Friday, drawing praise from green groups but dismay from airlines bosses. The decision follows a move by Schiphol itself, in which the Dutch state is the majority shareholder, to impose a cap on the number passengers it can carry this summer - although that was due to staffing shortages. The government also pointed to the airport's impact on "nature and climate" for the cuts, following criticism from environmental campaigners and the left-wing opposition for its greenhouse gas and nitrogen oxide emissions. The move is intended to restore "the balance between a w...

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Amsterdam substitutes ‘Pride Walk’ for canal parade in 25th anniversary of Gay Pride

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August 8, 20211070 Views

Amsterdam capped a month of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of its first Gay Pride festival with a "Pride Walk" through the city's historic centre on Saturday that drew around 10,000 participants carrying flags and an enormous rainbow banner. People carry a giant rainbow flag in the 25th gay pride parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands August 7, 2021. REUTERS/Eva Plevier Usually one of the biggest events of the year in Amsterdam, the festival has traditionally ended with a flotilla along the city's canals, with parties, music and dancing on the boats, quays, and in bars and people's houses. But the canal parade was cancelled in 2020 and again this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Saturday's Pride Walk was billed as chance for Amsterdammers to not just have a party but to...