Our city has a lot to offer when you want to stay a bit longer. You can find the usual tourist attractions on the internet: the Anne Frank house, the beautiful canals, the Red Lights district, the worldwide famous museums, but also the very peculiar museums et cetera. Here we will point you to some things that might be specially interesting for you.
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Westermarkt, 1016 DV Amsterdam, tram 13 or 17
It is the first memorial in the world for people who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. It was revealed in 1987 and it still is a place where we commemorate, where we celebrate and where we start protest actions.
The monument consists of three large triangles, made of pink granite and interconnected to form one larger triangle. The triangles are positioned in a way that one corner of the monument points in the direction of the National Monument at Dam Square, another to the site of the Anne Frank House and the third towards the headquarters of COC, the LGBTQ+ organisation founded in 1946. One triangle is designed as a staircase down to the water of the Keizersgracht. One is used as a podium. In the last one a line of a poem by Jacob Israël de Haan is engraved: “Naar vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen”. In the translation “For friendship such a boundless craving” the ambiguity gets lost; ‘mateloos’ does indeed mean boundless, but also has a reference in it to ‘without a mate, a buddy’.
