The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
The Golden Bend
Taxes were charged by canal frontage, so real wealth meant width. Stand here and you're reading net worth in metres of façade. Nowhere was so brazen.
The stretch of the Herengracht where the Golden Age super-rich built double-wide mansions — the most expensive addresses of the 17th-century world.
— Femke, The Historian
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