Welcome, fellow adventurers, to De Plantage — Amsterdam's quietest, greenest, and most quietly extraordinary district! If you've already wandered the gabled canals of the Jordaan or browsed the market stalls of De Pijp on one of our other Amsterdam tours, get ready for something completely different. De Plantage was laid out from 1682 as a leisure-garden suburb just outside the old city walls: leafy avenues, a physic garden, and pleasure grounds where Amsterdammers came to breathe. By the nineteenth century it had grown into the home of the Hortus Botanicus and Artis Zoo — and of a large, thriving Jewish community that made this the beating heart of Jewish Amsterdam. That story took a devastating turn during the German occupation, when several of De Plantage's grandest buildings became sites of persecution and deportation. This tour walks you through both halves of that history: the gardens, the zoo, and the green optimism the district was built on, and the theatre, school, and museums that now stand watch over one of the darkest chapters in Dutch history. Walk slowly, read carefully, and by the end you'll have earned every letter of a word this neighbourhood quietly asks of everyone who visits.

De Plantage — Gardens, Zoo & Jewish Amsterdam

Amsterdam City Tour

8 stops · 130 min · 2.3 km

€ 14,99€ 9,99

Instant access after payment — you'll get a code by email and on screen to unlock the tour.