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| | Amsterdam Travel Guide | Fodor's Online |
 | | With a mere 730,000 friendly souls and with almost everything a scant 10-minute bike ride away, Amsterdam is actually like a village that happens to pack the cultural wallop of a megalopolis. |
 | | The French writer J-K Huysmans once called Amsterdam "a dream, an orgy of houses and water." It's true: when compared with other major European cities, this one is uniquely defined by houses, rather than palaces, estates, and other aristocratic folderol. |
 | | Amsterdam's official voyage toward global domination began in 1275, when Floris V, count of Holland, decreed that the fledgling settlement would be exempt from paying tolls. |
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