Curiosities, construction, reforms and architecture. Amsterdam
Did you know architecture…..?
Among the many attractions and sights that amaze travelers visiting Amsterdam is its architecture. Certainly stand out razor-thin that many of the buildings around its world famous canals. A passerby certainly suspect that at some point the city experienced some sort of bonanza that led to its soil was revalued to the unaffordable, forcing its citizens to suffer these strictures. Indeed I would not go far wrong, the fact is that the Netherlands lived in the seventeenth century, a period of maximum splendor thanks to the business and financial. its capital, Thanks to a privileged situation, It reached an important status becoming the largest port in Europe. His bag was full of activity and life of its inhabitants flowed with joy, as the goods, for its canals. Wealthy families settled in their margins in buildings including warehouses often on the top floor. But we had to have the voracity of the Treasury: the local government established a tax on these properties, establishing the basis for calculating the amount the width of the facades that terribly encarecía: loose "people from Amsterdam’ Then they began to build their typical very narrow and tall buildings.
Architecture Amsterdam
A curiosity more: our walker will have the feeling that many of the buildings "will throw up" ... and chanced. It is not that an unstable ground or a bad settlement of construccioón and is tilting, but a consequence of its close architecture that made it very difficult to introduce them furniture or goods and trying to gain distance without having to pay the IRS more. If you look closely you will also see that the buildings have at its highest point protruding pulleys, this inclination facilitated a few centimeters more room to raise the load.
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