Golden Bend: Where Wealthy Amsterdammers Lived

Amsterdam’s most coveted canal houses are the mansions clustered around the Gouden Bocht – the Golden Bend. This curve of Herengracht between Spiegelstraat and Vijzelstraat is the stretch where in the 17th century wealthy merchants built their lavish homes. Late 16th and early 17th century Amsterdam prospered and an ever increasing number of people settled in the

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