When You're in... Amsterdam

Amsterdam is renowned as Europe's favorite Sin City, but it does have its share of spiritual offerings to balance the wicked. And one of its best — yet least known — is tucked right in the heart of the red-light district.

If you find yourself here among the city's bars, hash cafés and dumbfoundingly brazen brothel shop windows and are seeking something to stimulate the soul instead of the body, head to the Amstelkring Museum on Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Its informal (yet more common) English name, the Church in the Attic , gives a more vivid sense of what it is: a resplendent...

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