六大世界遗产运河 6 Canal World Heritages
遗产名称:辛格尔运河以内的阿姆斯特丹17世纪同心圆型运河区(荷兰)
Name: Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht (Netherlands)
入选时间:2010年
Date of Inscription: 2010
(阿姆斯特丹运河区街景)
(Streets in the Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam)
同心圆型运河区内有大约90座岛屿和1500座桥梁。运河网络的主要任务是通过运河来排干同心弧形沼泽地,填平中间空地来扩大城市空间,建造建筑和设施,也使得阿姆斯特丹被称为"北方的威尼斯"。
With 1500 bridges linking around 90 islands within the Area. The canal networks are made mainly to extend the city for architectures and constructions by draining the swampland, using a system of canals in concentric arc, and filling in the intermediate spaces, consequently, dubbing Amsterdam “the Venice of the North”.