Amstelpark
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The Amstelpark was built for the Dutch
garden fair the Floriade in 1972 in Amsterdam-Zuid
. The park includes a labyrinth, a café, a restaurant, two galleries, an orangery
, petting zoo and a mini-golf course. The Amstelpark attract between the 800 000 and one million visitors a year.
valley and the Riekermolen.
The park lost about 30 percent of bigger trees due to disease. The rhododendron valley contains about 139 species of rhododendrons, blooming between April and May.
At the Great Pond in the park is the Japanese Garden. In line the celebration of the 400-year relationship between the Netherlands and Japan in 2001, the gardens were renovated.
The Riekermill lies south of the Amstelpark. A windmill was situated here from 1636 and was active until in 1932, and was removed in 1956. The city council decided to rebuild the mill on the west side of the Amstel in 1961. The mill has become a well known image, due the sketch by Rembrant.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
garden fair the Floriade in 1972 in Amsterdam-Zuid
Amsterdam-Zuid
Amsterdam-Zuid is a stadsdeel of Amsterdam, Netherlands. This borough was formed in 2010 as a merge of the former boroughs Oud-Zuid and Zuideramstel. The borough has 133,810 inhabitants and it has the highest income per household of all boroughs in Amsterdam.-Notes:...
. The park includes a labyrinth, a café, a restaurant, two galleries, an orangery
Orangery
An orangery was a building in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form. The orangery was similar to a greenhouse or conservatory...
, petting zoo and a mini-golf course. The Amstelpark attract between the 800 000 and one million visitors a year.
Background
The Amstelpark was opened for the Floriade gardening exhibition in 1972. The park offers the Amstel train which runs through the Rosarium, the rhododendronRhododendron
Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...
valley and the Riekermolen.
The park lost about 30 percent of bigger trees due to disease. The rhododendron valley contains about 139 species of rhododendrons, blooming between April and May.
At the Great Pond in the park is the Japanese Garden. In line the celebration of the 400-year relationship between the Netherlands and Japan in 2001, the gardens were renovated.
The Riekermill lies south of the Amstelpark. A windmill was situated here from 1636 and was active until in 1932, and was removed in 1956. The city council decided to rebuild the mill on the west side of the Amstel in 1961. The mill has become a well known image, due the sketch by Rembrant.