The Jordaan you won't find on a postcard
A dark-comedy history walk through Amsterdam's most romanticised neighbourhood. The riots, the sewers, the legends and the demolition plans — all GPS-triggered, right where they happened.
Not your average walking tour
History, rude bits included
Real stories from the archives: riots over eels and potatoes, a canal that stank so badly the city filled it in, and a criminal fortress that probably never existed.
It plays itself
Walk, and the stories start automatically at the right spot. GPS triggers each stop — no map-staring, no buttons while crossing the street.
Jokes on the city, not the victims
Dark comedy about governments, city planners and Amsterdam's talent for forgetting things and selling tickets to them afterwards. The heavy stories get told straight.
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Highlights of this tour
- ✓Walk past the site of Amsterdam's deadliest street riot
- ✓Discover the canal the city was too embarrassed to keep
- ✓Stand where Rembrandt's grave used to be
- ✓Hear the legend of a criminal fortress that (probably) never existed
Stops on the route
Stops on the route
What you get
Full walking route
A ready-made loop through the Jordaan
52 audio stops
Dark-comedy stories about the neighbourhood
GPS navigation
Always the right way, no map needed
Studio-quality audio
Professionally narrated in English
7 days access
Take your time, pause whenever you like
Online & offline
Works in your browser or downloaded
Stories on the route
A taste of what's waiting between the canal houses:
25 dead. One eel.
In 1886, police tried to stop a game of eel-pulling on the Lindengracht. Two days of lethal street fighting followed.
The former open sewer
The Goudsbloemgracht stank so badly the city filled in the canal in 1854 — then renamed it, which was most of the fix.
Rembrandt's disappeared grave
The most famous painter in the world died broke on the Rozengracht. His grave in the Westerkerk was cleared twenty years later.
The fortress that wasn't
The Fort van Sjako, Amsterdam's legendary criminal headquarters, turns out to be attached to the wrong addresses. The legend was better marketing than the archives.
What people say 4.8/5
James
★★★★★
Way funnier and darker than the usual tour — loved the eel riot story.
Anna
★★★★★
Finally a tour that doesn't sugarcoat the history. GPS worked flawlessly.
Marco
★★★★★
Great pace, great jokes, real history. Worth every cent.
Practical
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