Centraal Station
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Amsterdam Centraal Station was built between 1881 and 1889 to a Neo-Renaissance and Gothic Revival design by Pierre Cuypers, architect of the Rijksmuseum, working with A.L. van Gendt. Its brickwork, turrets and gables give it a palace-like front. The station stands on three artificial islands, its foundations resting on over 8,000 wooden piles driven into the IJ riverbed.
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Amsterdam Centraal station (Dutch: Station Amsterdam Centraal, lit. 'Amsterdam Central Station', Dutch pronunciation: [staːˈɕɔn ˌɑmstərˈdɑm sɛnˈtraːl], abbreviation: Asd) is the largest railway station in Amsterdam, North Holland, the Netherlands. A major international railway hub, it is used by 192,000 passengers a day, making it the second busiest railway station in the country after Utrecht Centraal and the most visited Rijksmonument of the Netherlands. National and international railway services at Amsterdam Centraal are provided by NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen), the principal rail operator in the Netherlands. Amsterdam Centraal is the northern terminus of Amsterdam Metro lines 51, 53, 54, and is a stop on Line 52 operated by municipal public transport operator GVB. It is also served by a number of GVB tram and ferry routes as well as local and regional bus routes operated by GVB, Connexxion and EBS. Amsterdam Centraal was designed by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers and opened in 1889. It features a Gothic, Renaissance Revival station building and a cast iron platform roof spanning approximately 40 metres (130 ft). Since 1997, the station building, underground passages, metro station...
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- Why stop at Centraal Station on a bike ride?
- Amsterdam Centraal Station was built between 1881 and 1889 to a Neo-Renaissance and Gothic Revival design by Pierre Cuypers, architect of the Rijksmuseum, working with A.L. van Gendt. Its brickwork, turrets and gables give it a palace-like front. The station stands on three artificial islands, its foundations resting on over 8,000 wooden piles driven into the IJ riverbed.
- Where is Centraal Station?
- Centraal Station is in Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands).