What is in the Red Light District?
Imke de Boer
2025-06-28 00:11:17
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In the Amsterdam Red Light District, you'll find a lot of 18+ entertainment, sex shows, sex shops and brothels in the form of windows. Apart from that, you'll find a lot of restaurants, bars and hotels. The area draws lots of visitors who are curious to experience the neighbourhood first-hand. The heart of the area is formed by two streets, or canals: Oude Zijdsvoorburgwal and Oude Zijdsachterburgwal. The connecting alleys and surrounding streets are officially part of the Red Light District as well.
Isabel Keijser
2025-06-23 05:01:32
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De Wallen is located in the heart of the oldest part of Amsterdam, covering several blocks south of the Oude Kerk en crossed by several canals. Between the Warmoesstraat and the Nieuwmarkt is a network of alleys and canals containing several hundred tiny one-room apartments rented by female prostitutes (and some ladyboys) who offer their services from behind a window.
Amsterdam's red light district has many sex shops, sex theatres, peep shows, a sex museum, a cannabis museum, and a number of coffee shops offering various cannabis products.
There are plenty of live sex shows and the most reputed of these go on at theatre Casa Rosso and Moulin Rouge.
For the merely curious, there are numerous peep shows that may come with video booths.
But of course, for the more adventurous among us, there are more interactive shows, for example at the Bananenbar.
Women tapping on the windows
During the day, the district is less lively and even less attractive as the more sordid aspects reveal themselves in natural daylight.
Although there are women forever tapping on the windows even during the light hours, most of the action takes place around 11pm, when the district is swarming with crowds and the red neon lights illuminate the inky canals.
The atmosphere pretty much thrives until around 2 or 3am when the crowds die down and businesses shut up shop.
Mason Huel
2025-06-11 02:03:03
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De Wallen, Amsterdam's red-light district, is internationally known and one of the main tourist attractions of the city. It offers legal prostitution and a number of coffee shops that sell marijuana. A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found. In most cases, red-light districts are particularly associated with female street prostitution, though in some cities, these areas may coincide with spaces of male prostitution and gay venues. Some red-light districts (such as De Wallen, Netherlands, or Reeperbahn, Germany) are places that are officially designated by authorities for legal and regulated prostitution.
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