10 Friendly Facts About Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is hands-down my absolute favorite city!

The city is full of timeless and beautiful architecture, stunning waterfronts, lush green parks, culture, museums, history, amazing food, and great nightlife.

Whenever anybody asks me to recommend a place for a good city break my go-to answer is always Amsterdam – there’s something for everyone there and I’ve never known anybody to be disappointed by a trip there!

So I couldn’t turn down the chance to share some of the interesting things I know about my favorite city with you all, could I?!

Here are my 10 friendly facts about Amsterdam.

Due to the thick layer of fen and clay present in the soil of the city, all the city’s buildings were erected on wooden poles that are fixed into a sandy layer of the ground over 35 feet deep!

Normally, a house rests on about 10 wooden poles, but the bigger buildings sit on thousands of them.

Did you know that the Royal Palace sits on 13,659 wooden poles and the Amsterdam Centraal Station sits on over 9,000 poles?!

Yes, Vegeta, over 9,000…