Among the symbols of Amsterdam deserves a special mention the bicycle in No other city in the world of cycling is indeed as widespread as in the Dutch city.
Amsterdam is known for hosting famous monuments and places of historical interest such as the Van Gogh Museum and Anne Frank House, as the city of liberalization and a favorite destination of young people travelers, but is also famous for being the city's bicycle. Cycling Bicycle and bike lanes are part of daily life in Amsterdam, and we realize as soon as you arrive in town: as soon as you exit the train station one can not but notice the huge three-storey parking spaces occupied by bicycles of every shape and color, and that damage to the visitor who arrives in town with the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat to expect.
The city has an extensive network of cycle paths, which allow those who want to avoid picking up the car or on public transport to travel the city riding his bike. There is talk of over 400 km of cycle paths, and it is to point out that in Amsterdam bike lanes have been introduced many years before other European cities. A peculiarity that the city has in common with practically all the rest of the Netherlands, even on a flat terrain that favors the use of two wheels. Therefore, they are also a lot of bicycles moving through the city on a population of 724 000 inhabitants, there are about 600 000 bikes, almost a head, and it is not required of bicycles in the garage waiting to be used for a sporadic trip out of town. The inhabitants of Amsterdam in fact use them to go to work, school, grocery shopping ... I do that everyday use. And the tourists who visit the Cities are therefore encouraged to travel to various stores specializing in bicycles and bicycle click in the large catalog model who prefer to explore the city and surrounding areas. The city will meet the tourists who want to shoot while riding a bike by providing a special map of bicycle paths, which are also shown on the safer areas, and then recommended to cyclists. There is also a special road signs, aimed at cyclists, and when you decide to make a stop is pretty easy to find parking for their "fireball" In fact there are many bike racks scattered throughout the city. And for the tourists a good sport idea would be to leave the confines of the city and ride to reach and visit the neighboring cities: the Dutch cycling enable to do this. And if at some point in the travel fatigue, or bad weather prevents you from continuing to ride, you can easily take the train or subway, both types of media are in fact fitted with special cars for transporting bikes.
The culture of cycling in Amsterdam has its roots in the sixties, a time when the environmental movement of the Provos attempted to encourage the use of bicycles in the city providing the people of the bicycle man and woman who could use and then leave in the designated parking. The predisposition toward the use of two wheels is not interrupted in the following decades, and in the last ten years the municipality has allocated over € 14 million to build bicycle paths.
Thanks to all that Amsterdam has not only as a beautiful and picturesque city, but it also shows the city sensitive to the environment and is particularly suited to cycling.
article was written by Francesca Tessarollo
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