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Royal Palace

Royal Palace

Also known as Koninklijk Paleis

Year

1665

Style

Baroque

Type

palace

The Koninklijk Paleis on Dam Square was raised as Amsterdam's town hall, the Stadhuis op de Dam, and was designed to express the seventeenth-century mercantile capital's own self-image as the assertive centre of the Dutch Republic. Jacob…

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  1. 1665

    Original construction

    Jacob van Campen

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