Skinny Bridge
Also known as Magere Brug
1691
Vernacular
public art
The name started as an insult. When Amsterdam's 1672 financial collapse forced the city to abandon plans for a broad stone crossing here and put up a cheap wooden one instead, the result was so narrow that two people could barely pass…
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- 1691
Hans Jansz van Petersom
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