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Red Light District
De Wallen—Amsterdam’s best known red-light district—is the largest of the city’s “Rosse Buurt,” formed with Singelgebied and Ruysdaelkade. It’s built around a network of narrow alleys where roughly 300 one-room cabins face the street, with prostitution offered behind a window or glass door, commonly lit in red and blacklight—window prostitution is the defining, most visible form here. As a major tourist attraction, it also concentrates the related storefront culture: sex shops, sex theatres, peep shows, a sex museum, a cannabis museum, and coffeeshops where cannabis is sold. The area’s geography helps explain its origins. The Rokin and Damrak follow the original course of the Amstel and meet at Dam Square, marking the spot where a bridge was built across the river in 1270; the Damrak then became a harbor. …
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