Il villaggio di pescatori costituitosi attorno alla diga sul fiume Amstel crebbe di fatto intorno al miracolo avvenuto nel 1345, che vide come protagonisti un vecchio in punto di morte ed un\u2019ostia riluttante a dissolversi, evento che fece della citt\u00e0 una delle principali mete di pellegrinaggio d\u2019Europa. Da allora Amsterdam non smise pi\u00f9 di crescere ed evolversi a colpi di idee ed innovazioni. <\/i><\/p>\n
Un vantaggio (che poi era lo svantaggio di tutte le province olandesi) fu certamente quello, a differenza di ci\u00f2 che accadde nel resto d\u2019Europa, di non aver vissuto il feudalesimo; un territorio che l\u2019uomo doveva continuamente strappare al dominio delle acque non interessava a nobilt\u00e0 n\u00e9 Chiesa, cosicch\u00e9 nel \u2018600 i contadini erano proprietari del 45% della terra, di cui potevano fare ci\u00f2 che volevano.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Un tale stato delle cose racchiudeva in germe il moderno capitalismo. Nello stesso secolo si costitu\u00ec proprio ad Amsterdam la Compagnia delle Indie Orientali che non solo port\u00f2 al sorgere della globalizzazione, ma anche alla nascita del mercato finanziario. E se nel 1674 l\u2019Olanda perse le proprie colonie americane (molto pi\u00f9 pacifiche rispetto a quelle britanniche grazie ad una cultura della tolleranza e dell\u2019abitudine al \u201cdiverso\u201d), il turbinio di idee non si arrest\u00f2. <\/i><\/p>\n Cos\u00ec dopo Martin Lutero che nel 1517 apr\u00ec la strada al Protestantesimo, vennero Rembrandt, Spinoza, Van Gogh, la Scuola di Amsterdam e il liberalismo, solo per citarne alcuni; bastano due passi, magari in notturna, per le vie del centro, per rendersi conto che il dinamismo e la tolleranza che hanno fatto di Amsterdam la culla del pi\u00f9 moderno Occidente sono tutt\u2019altro che spenti.<\/i><\/p>\n","modified":"2018-06-19T04:34:06","color":"","icon":"","noDetails":false,"noInteraction":false,"taxonomy":{"webmapp_category":[13]},"accessibility":{"mobility":{"check":false,"description":""},"hearing":{"check":false,"description":""},"vision":{"check":false,"description":""},"cognitive":{"check":false,"description":""},"food":{"check":false,"description":""}},"locale":"it","source":"https:\/\/test.cyclando.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/18237","wp_edit":"http:\/\/test.cyclando.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=18237&action=edit","translations":{"en":{"id":18417,"name":"I Amsterdam","web":"https:\/\/test.cyclando.com\/\/i-amsterdam-storia\/?lang=en","source":"https:\/\/test.cyclando.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/18417","description":" The small fishing village founded on a dam on the river Amstel in the late 12<\/i>th<\/sup><\/i> century grew up basically around a miracle happened in 1345 when an old dying man and a Host unwilling to dissolve, turned the city of Amsterdam into one of the main pilgrimage destinations in Europe. <\/i><\/p>\n Since then, Amsterdam kept expanding, evolving and innovating working as a laboratory of progressive living and tolerance throughout the centuries. Despite its rise in the wave of Catholic piety, it later played a crucial role in the expansion of Protestantism. Amsterdam was also the cradle of modern capitalism, the reason is in a way related to water; since much of the land was reclaimed from the sea or swamps, neither Church nor nobility could claim to own it. <\/i><\/p>\n The resulting situation was pretty different from the one of the other European countries where land was controlled by noblemen and\/or Church; in the province of Holland peasants owned 45% of it, meaning that Dutch of the 16<\/i>th<\/sup><\/i> century were their own bosses. In 1602 was established in Amsterdam the <\/i>Dutch East India Company<\/i><\/b>, the first multinational corporation in the world, first company to issue stock and first example of globalization. <\/i><\/p>\n But Amsterdam has a had a long tradition not only as a centre of commerce, but also as a cultural hub. Many important artists and thinkers came here to live and work throughout the centuries, among them: <\/i>Rembrandt<\/i><\/b>, one of the greatest painters in European art and the most important in Dutch history, considered one of the great prophets of civilization; the philosopher <\/i>Baruch Spinoza<\/i><\/b>, who set the groundwork for the 18<\/i>th<\/sup><\/i> century Enlightenment and <\/i>Vincent Van Gogh<\/i><\/b>, who lived here for one year and gives the name to one of the most popular museums of the city hosting the largest collection of his works. <\/i><\/p>\n Today, what makes Amsterdam so attractive is the 17<\/i>th<\/sup><\/i> century historical atmosphere combined with the mentality of a modern metropolis. The city has the highest density of <\/i>museums<\/i><\/b> in the world and the best way to get around is by bike, but take also a canal tour and discover the <\/i>historical canal district<\/i><\/b>, in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/test.cyclando.com\/poi\/i-amsterdam-storia\/","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"","contact:email":"","opening_hours":"","capacity":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[4.884002208709717,52.35908031463623]}}