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The canal ring expanded Amsterdam by draining swampland through concentric canals and filling the spaces between them for streets, homes and monuments.
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Amsterdam Canal Ring
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UNESCO describes Amsterdam's canal extension as the largest and most homogeneous urban expansion of its time and a worldwide planning reference through the 19th century.
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Amsterdam's Canal District is an entirely artificial port-city landscape whose surviving concentric canals, radial waterways and historic facade lines still define the city center.
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Amsterdam's UNESCO-listed canal district began as a new port-city project at the end of the 16th and start of the 17th centuries.
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The World Heritage canal-ring property covers 198.2 hectares with a 481.7-hectare buffer zone and was inscribed in 2010.
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Amsterdam's UNESCO canal ring was a planned seventeenth-century expansion: a fan of concentric canals that became a model of large-scale urban design.
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