The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Spui
The Sixties happened around this small bronze boy. The Provos launched their anarchic happenings at the Lieverdje. Amsterdam's rebel decade starts here.
A filled-in canal now a square of bookshops, and the stage of the 1960s Provo protests. The little Lieverdje statue was their gathering point and target.
— Femke, The Historian
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