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The Waag (Weigh House) - Amsterdam
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twmnjIn album: Amsterdam & Haarlem, Netherlands - ...In Webshots channel: travel - Date uploaded: Nov 16, 2006
The Waag ("Weigh House") is a remnant of the former city walls in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Constructed in 1488, it was originally one of the city gates, the Sint Anthoniespoort. When the city wall disappeared, the Nieuwmarkt (new market) was created around it and the weighing scales for the market were placed in the former gate. The name stems from that period (Waag is an old Dutch word for scale). Today the building houses the Waag Society, an ICT research foundation working in the social and cultural domain, and there is a café/restaurant on the ground floor. The building carries the oldest plaque in Amsterdam, which reads On 28 April 1488 the first stone of this gate was laid.
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