{"id":173598,"date":"2016-05-27T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/amsterdam-tour-tales-from-the-city\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:16:24","slug":"amsterdam-tour-tales-from-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/amsterdam-tour-tales-from-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Tour -Tales From The City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcome To Amsterdam &#8211; Netherlands&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Netherlands<\/strong>, <strong>a country in north-western Europe<\/strong>, is known for its flat landscape, canals, tulip fields, windmills and cycling routes. <strong>Amsterdam<\/strong>, the capital, <strong>is home to the Rijksmuseum<\/strong>, Van Gogh Museum, the house where <strong>Jewish diarist Anne Frank<\/strong> hide during WWII and a red light district. <strong>The Canalside mansions<\/strong> and a trove of works from artists including <strong>Rembrandt and Vermeer<\/strong> remain from the 17th-century &#8220;<strong>Golden Age<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>History Of Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p>However<strong>, the history of the Netherlands<\/strong> is <strong>the history of seafaring people<\/strong> thriving on a <strong>lowland river delta on the North Sea<\/strong> in north-western Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of <strong>the Roman empire<\/strong>. Also this came under increasing pressure from Germanic peoples moving westwards. As Roman power collapsed also, the Middle Ages began, <strong>three dominant Germanic<\/strong> peoples coalesced in the area, <strong>Frisians in the north and coastal areas<\/strong>, <strong>Low Saxons in the northeast<\/strong>, and <strong>the Franks in the south<\/strong>.   <\/p>\n<p>During the Middle Ages, <strong>the descendants of the Carolingian dynasty<\/strong>, came to dominate the area and then extended their rule to a large part of Western Europe. <strong>The region of the Netherlands<\/strong> therefore became part of Lower Lotharingia within <strong>the Frankish Holy Roman Empire<\/strong>. For several centuries, lordships such as Brabant, Holland, Zeeland, Friesland, Guelders and others held a changing patchwork of territories. Also there was no unified equivalent of <strong>the modern Netherlands.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>By 1433, the Duke of Burgundy had assumed control over most of the lowlands territories in Lower Lotharingia, he created <strong>the Burgundian Netherlands<\/strong> which included modern Belgium, Luxembourg, also a part of France.<\/p>\n<p>Then<strong> the Catholic kings of Spain<\/strong> took strong measures against <strong>the new Protestantism<\/strong> and other dissent, which polarized those peoples of present &#8211; day Belgium and Holland. Also the subsequent Dutch revolt led to splitting the Burgundian Netherlands into a Catholic French and Dutch-speaking <strong>&#8220;Spanish Netherlands&#8221;<\/strong> (approximately modern) <strong>Belgium and Luxembourg<\/strong>, and a northern <strong>&#8220;United Provinces&#8221;<\/strong>, which spoke Dutch and was predominantly Protestant, with a large <strong>Catholic minority<\/strong>. It became the modern Netherlands.  <\/p>\n<h3>Culture Of Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The culture of the Netherlands<\/strong> is diverse, reflecting regional differences as well as the foreign influences built up by centuries of the Dutch people&#8217;s mercantile and explorative spirit. Similarly the Netherlands and its people have long played an important role as <strong>centre of cultural liberalism and tolerance<\/strong>. Also the Dutch Golden Age is popularly regarded as its zenith.  <\/p>\n<h3>Places to Visit in Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1) Amsterdam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  2) Rotterdam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  3) The Hague<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  4) Mastricht<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  5) Utrecht<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  6) Volendam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  7) Delft<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  8) Lisse<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Night Clubs At Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1) Paradiso<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  2) Uitgaanscentrum Mondial<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  3) Jimmy Woo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  4) De Alla<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  5) Sugar Factory<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  6) NachtClub Cindrella<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  7) Air<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  8) Post Cs Bv<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  9) Club NL<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  10) Escape<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  11) Panama<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  12) Wester Unie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  13) Shadrak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  14) Bungalow 8 Amsterdam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>  15) Winston Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome To Amsterdam &#8211; Netherlands&#8217; The Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,1916,1587,2112],"tags":[2139,2140,2141,2142,2143,2144],"class_list":["post-173598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destination-info-en-ca","category-europe-en-ca","category-news-en-ca","category-north-western-europe-en-ca","tag-amsterdam-en-ca","tag-culture-of-netherlands-en-ca","tag-history-of-netherlands-en-ca","tag-netherlands-en-ca","tag-nightclubs-at-netherlands-en-ca","tag-popular-destinations-at-netherlands-en-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}