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Warmoesstraat
Warmoesstraat—“Chard Street”—is one of the oldest streets in Amsterdam, running parallel to Damrak from Nieuwebrugsteeg to Dam Square. Its origins reach back to the 13th century, and by the 16th and 17th centuries it had become the city’s shopping street. During the Dutch Golden Age, Joost van den Vondel’s father worked here as a silk merchant, tying this lively commercial corridor to one of the era’s best-known writers. That long trading history helps explain its later reputation as well. Warmoesstraat sits adjacent to the red-light district, and the surrounding area is also known as the “leather area,” with cruise and fetish bars and venues featuring darkrooms. In that context, the first leather bar in the Netherlands opened there around 1955. …
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