Amsterdam
Review © 2009, Wcities
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One of the oldest inner courts in Amsterdam, the Begijnhof district is centreed on a group of historic buildings, mostly private dwellings. It was one a Béguinage, which were collections of small buildings used by Beguines, several lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by religious women who longed to serve God but did not want to retire from the world. Today, though, it is the site of the English Reformed Church. The only inner court in Amsterdam founded during the Middle Ages, the Begijnhof lies within the Singel, the innermost canal of Amsterdam's circular canal system. The Begijnhof is a metre below the rest of the old city centre, because it is still at medieval street levels. Review © 2009, Wcities |
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