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Walks in Nieuw-West.
One editor-picked walk through Nieuw-West, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.
Nearby
Other walks close to Nieuw-West.
Sorted by distance from the start of sloterplas: the postwar lake the centre forgot. Good for stitching together a longer day.
architectureheritage3 km · 70 min · Easy
Spaarndammerbuurt: the cathedral of social housing
Het Schip, two more de Klerk blocks, and a courtyard scaled like a hofje for working families.
post-industrialparkland3.5 km · 80 min · Easy
Westerpark: the gasworks that became the living room
A neo-Renaissance gasworks turned cinema, club and canteen, set in the city's long west lawn.
villageypocket3.5 km · 80 min · Easy
Jordaan: hofjes and brown cafés
The almshouse courtyards, the blue-tiled corridor, and a canal terrace under the Westertoren.
canalfood-forward3 km · 70 min · Easy
Brouwersgracht: the warehouse canal and the food street
Amsterdam's prettiest canal, a courtyard from the New York story, and a street of independent food shops.