Today, the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam is the most important church in the Netherlands. Since 1814, Dutch monarchs have been inaugurated here, including the reigning King Willem - Alexander, Queen Mother Beatrix, her grandmother Queen Wilhelmina and Que...

Westerkerk is the burial place of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt, who at the end of his life lived nearby, at Rozengracht 184. A year earlier his son Titus was also buried here. When he died in 1669, Rembrandt was so poor, that he was buried in a...