Waterlooplein (Stadhuis)

Even if you don't want to buy any batik clothes, leather goods or silver jewellery, on no account should you miss Amsterdam's largest and most beautiful flea market in Waterlooplein (Waterloo Square). Every day, stall-holders and shopkeepers try to sell their colourful and chaotic mixture of useful items, bric-a-brac and second-hand clothes around the modern Stadhuis (Town Hall), with its eye-catching red and white façade.
The Normaal-Amsterdam-Peil, a calibration post, is in the ground here. This... is the zero point from which heights are calculated in virtually every country in Europe. Immediately beside it you can see the current sea level in three glass columns, and you will see that but for its protective dykes, at normal sea level Amsterdam would be flooded. more