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If Amsterdam is the Venice of the north...? |
Travel Info why is Venice not the Amsterdam of the south? Travel Tips Good question. I live in Amsterdam and have been to Venice several times. Venice is famous for the water, houses at the water, beautiful bridges. That is why Amsterdam is the Venice of the north. It has that beauty. But if you say Amsterdam, people think of liberal ideas, soft drugs, hippies a metropole. So if you say the Amsterdam of the south, people think of a city in the south with those characteristics. I would then say Barcelona is the Amsterdam of the south. Others It is! It's not. Bruge, Belgium is the Venice of the north. Because Venice is older. My Native city of Saint Petersburg was built by the Peter The Great after Amsterdam, yet it earned the mick name "Northern Venice", too.... Actually,technically it is, but nobody calls the latter the Amsterdam of the South. Yes, Amsterdam definitely is. Why not the other way around, because Venice is older. MT |
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