10 Fascinating things you might not know about the Dutch capital

1. Amsterdam has over 165 canals and its possible to travel 100 kilometers (60 miles) on the canals of course! it’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2. The Dutch can proudly claim to have the most popular beer exactly! Heineken.

3. The city has its own boat just for cats, ‘The Catboat’ started in the 1960s a shelter for the lovely buddies.

4. Amsterdam has about 1 million bicycles in the city actually more than people.

5. Anne Frank’s diary is available in 70 different languages, she was a Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution

6. The houses are narrow because Back in the 17th century, the locals were taxed on the width of their property,

7. The city features the most museums per capital in the world like the Van Gogh, Rijksmuseum, and Stedelijk Museums.

8. The ‘ladies of the night’ pay tax, just like factory or office workers.

9. Cannabis joints may be legal in Amsterdam, but smoking tobacco has been banned in cafés and restaurants since 2008.

10. Amsterdam has over 2,500 houseboats