De 9 Straatjes (The Nine Streets)

This grid is the canal plan at its most legible. Each little street ends on a bridge and a canal view — that's not luck, it's the design.

Nine short lanes bridging the main canals — the finest-grain piece of the 17th-century plan, now full of small design shops.

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