City of the day: Amsterdam

Since I haven't been able to do a City Of The Day yesterday, I'm going to do two this evening. Right now, we start with the capital of my home country the Netherlands: Amsterdam. 1,4 Million people live in Amsterdam, and here are my three highlights:

1) Artis is a zoo in the centre of Amsterdam. It is the oldest zoo of the Netherlands, founded in 1838 by G.F. Westerman, J.W.H. Werlemann and J.J. Wijsmuller. In addition to the zoo, Artis has a planetarium, a geological museum and a zoological museum.

2) The Anne Frank House is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. As well as the preservation of the hiding place — known in Dutch as the Achterhuis — and an exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, the museum acts as an exhibition space to highlight all forms of persecution and discrimination.

3) The ArenA Boulevard is a center of pop music! You've got the massive Amsterdam ArenA for concerts by the likes of Madonna, U2 and Robbie Williams, and the Heineken Music Hall, for smaller, more intimate concerts. On top of that, the Ziggo Dome is currently under construction, which will make the ArenA Boulevard even more the place to be when it comes to concerts.

This is part 24 out of a series of 50. Next city, later today: Hiroshima.