A shopping day in Amsterdam is incomplete without paying a visit to the Kalverstraat.

The most familiar street of The Netherlands already exists for more than six hundred years now. At least, the oldest saved document in which the name ‘die Calverstraete’ is mentioned, dates from the fourth of January 1393. The name of the street refers to the lively business in cows, oxes and calves which took place in the street until 1629. After the disappearance of the cattle-market, the Kalverstraat turned into a stylish shopping street. Up until about thirty years ago the street was not only familiar because of the shops, but also well known as a street full of lunchrooms, restaurants, hotels and cinema’s.