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Self Guided Tour of Amsterdam: A City of Trade and Tolerance

By Tourific
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$0 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Amsterdam's canal houses lean drunkenly into each other — not from age, but because 17th-century merchants deliberately tilted them so hoisted cargo wouldn't smash the windows. That's the kind of storey you will hear on this self-guided audio tour of Amsterdam, delivered through an app you control entirely.

Across 15+ stops and 5km, you'll trace the world's first stock exchange, a secret Catholic church hidden in a merchant's attic, coffeeshop culture's surprising origins, and Anne Frank's canalside hiding place — all threaded through centuries of trade and tolerance.

No fixed start time, no group to keep pace with. Perfect for first-time visitors, you can pause for stroopwafels or to to enter a site — the tour waits for you. If you'd rather understand a city than just tick off landmarks, this Amsterdam walking tour was made for you.

Over 20,000 travellers have explored with our self-guided tours, backed by a full refund guarantee.

Activity location

  • Dam Square
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Nieuwmarkt
    • Nieuwmarkt
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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Self Guided Tour of Amsterdam: A City of Trade and Tolerance in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • Opening hours: Thu 8:30 am-8:00 pm
  • English
Price details
NZ$0.13 x 1 AdultNZ$0.13
Total
Price is NZ$0.13

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Audio and written guide included
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
  • What's includedWhat's included
    1-year access on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Any physical devices or headphones
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Human tour guide at location

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Dam Square

  • 20m
Stand where a humble river dam gave an entire city its name and see where Dutch Royals are crowned though they never actually wear the crown!

Beurs van Berlage (Pass by)

Stand at the site of the world’s first stock exchange and trace the roots of modern capitalism.

Oude Kerk (Pass by)

Find a 13th-century church standing unbothered in the middle of Amsterdam's most notorious area

Museum Ons'Lieve Heer Op Solder (Pass by)

Hear about an ordinary canal house with a secret church the whole city knew about but pretended not to see.

Statue of Multatuli

  • 10m
Pause before the writer whose pen name means "I have suffered greatly" — and find out what he exposed that made a nation squirm.

Homomonument

  • 10m
Discover the world’s first LGBTQ+ memorial. Step onto pink granite triangles whose three points each face a different chapter of persecution

Anne Frank House (Pass by)

Pause at Prinsengracht 263 and consider how a teenager's diary became one of the most translated books on earth.

The Jordaan

  • 10m
Wander flower-named streets where refugees and artisans once packed into courtyards

Amsterdam Chinatown

  • 10m
Walk a street once so dangerous postmen refused to deliver post — and see what replaced the needles.

In de Waag (Pass by)

Size up a medieval gate that hosted surgeons, painters, and Napoleon's horses.

The Dancing Houses (Pass by)

Spot the hooks on the gables and work out why these canal houses were built to lean towards you on purpose

Begijnhof

  • 10m
Slip through an unmarked door off a busy square into a courtyard where one woman kept a 600-year-old tradition alive until the very end

Flower Market

  • 15m
Browse tulip bulbs on floating barges and consider that a single bulb once cost as much as a house.

Location

Activity location

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    Dam Square
    • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Nieuwmarkt
    • Nieuwmarkt
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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