Monument sights in The Netherlands
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Sarphatipark
This diverse little park was named after Samuel Sarphati (1813–66), a Jewish doctor, businessman and urban innovator. The grounds are a mix of ponds, gently rolling meadows and wooded fringes. In the centre you’ll see the Sarphati memorial (1886), a bombastic temple with a fountain, gargoyles and a bust of the great man himself. Water is pumped to the fountain via an underground pipe from a canal hundreds of metres away. Sarphati’s diverse projects (waste- disposal service, slaughterhouse, factory for cheap bread, trades schools, the Amstel Hotel and a mortgage bank) exasperated the dour city council, though many of these ventures survive to this day.
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Rotterdam Walk of Fame
The Rotterdam Walk of Fame features handprints from luminaries including Bryan Adams, Bryan Ferry, Dizzy Gillespie, 'Diamond' David Lee Roth, Kamahl, Roxette, Willie Nelson - and even Spandau Ballet (the Netherlands being perhaps the only country in the world that still remembers who they are).
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Dam Square & Nationaal Monument
This pigeon-filled expanse was the site of the original dam built across the Amstel. Now it’s busker central, with the occasional puppet show during summer and a Ferris wheel in the spring. The obelisk on the east side is the Nationaal Monument, built in 1956 to honour the fallen of WWII.
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Homomonument
The pink granite triangles of the Homomonument, at Westermarkt commemorates gays and lesbians who were persecuted by the Nazis; citizens lay out flowers on Liberation Day (4 May).
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Statue of Laurens Coster
On the square north of the Grote Kerk is a Statue of Laurens Coster, whom Haarlemmers believe has a claim, along with Gutenberg, to be called the inventor of movable type.
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Johannes Petrus Minckelers Statue
The statue at the north end of the Markt is of Johannes Petrus Minckelers, who holds a flaming rod - he's the chap who invented gas light.
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