Weeping Tower
Prins Hendrikkade 94, 1000 Binnenstad
Description:
The former fortress tower in Amsterdam, built in 1487. According to legend, its Dutch name (Schreierstoren) translates as “wall of weeping” and appeared due to the fact that at this place women said goodbye to their husbands, sailing on the ships of the East India Company. However, according to historians, the tower got its name from the city wall, which in this place turned at an acute angle.
But the most interesting thing on the tower is a commemorative plaque, the inscription on which indicates that from this place in 1609, the English captain Henry Hudson sailed on a ship in order to find the western way to the East Indies, swimming as a result at the mouth of the river on the east coast of America and finding the island of Manhattan. The Dutch named the river after him.
Today, there is a shop in the tower that sells navigation equipment.