Amsterdam News!

Amsterdam has a whole neighbourhood dedicated to flowers and plants: the Jordaan district was named after the French word for garden, “jardin”. In order to honour this curious origin, the quarter`s streets also received the name of wilderness leading actors, such as Rozengracht , Goudbloemstraat and Tuinstraat.

Around these paths, different scenarios respond to the general atmosphere: ample gardens, like the ones at Willet-Holthuysen and Van Loon museums, compliment smaller front ones with lovely pots of flowers adding their colours and enchanting parfum to the district.

The famous skinny bridge across the river Amstel and opposite of the Carré theatre, is an Old Dutch design wooden bridge known as a double-swipe bridge. Tradition relates that the bridge was named after the sisters Mager, who were supposed to live on opposite sides of the river.

They are said to have had the wooden bridge built to make it easier to visit one another. However it appears more likely, that the original bridge acquired the name from being so narrow, that it was hard for two pedestrians to pass one along another.

Because of increasing the traffic on the skinny bridge, a wider bridge replaced the narrow one in 1871. Skinny Bridge is far not skinny anymore, but one of the most beautiful bridges of Amsterdam. At night many lights illuminate the bridge, then it becomes a very romantic place, popular with lovers and photographers.