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Amsterdam has quite a few bridges: 1,680 to be exact. Of these, 346 have an official name, including one of Amsterdam’s most photographed bridges: the Skinny Bridge. How did that bridge even get its name, it’s not that skinny, is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n It appears in every tourist booklet and postcard rack: the “Skinny Bridge,” or Skinny Bridge. The origin of this bridge’s name is still the subject of heated debate to this day. Indeed, three legends circulate.<\/p>\n Legend 2: for thin boats<\/strong> Legend 3: For thin sisters <\/p>\n Romantic date<\/strong><\/p>\n Also, or perhaps especially, at night, the Skinny Bridge is a sight to behold. From the bridge towards Rembrandplein, you have a great view of the Skinny Bridge with all its 1,200 lights. Sailing underneath it, for example on a romantic date, is also absolutely recommended, for example with a canal cruise<\/a> or on one of the boats<\/a> of the Nederlanden. You then sail through the middle of the bridge, where the bridge can also be raised, an imposing sight.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”82%” custom_margin=”60px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The skinny bridge: starring role in three legends Amsterdam has quite a few bridges: 1,680 to be exact. Of these, 346 have an official name, including one of Amsterdam’s most photographed bridges: the Skinny Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":22110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denederlanden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Legend 1: For thin girls
<\/strong>Once upon a time, the wooden drawbridge we know as the Skinny Bridge was so narrow that people could barely pass each other when walking in opposite directions. Consequently, it was nicknamed the “Kippetjesbrug,” because the span could only be used by very skinny people (a kippetje is Amsterdam slang for a skinny girl). To cope with increasing traffic on the Amstel River, this original “skinny” little bridge was replaced by a wider one in 1871.<\/p>\n
The original 1691 bridge had as many as 12 passages, which were obviously very narrow: hence the “skinny” name. The current bridge dating from 1934 has eight, allowing wider boats to pass through, but the designation remained. Tall ships can – as then – still enter the city from the Amstel, due to the possibility of raising the bridge.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The last legend, is perhaps the most evocative. The bridge was said to be named after two sisters who were either very skinny, very stingy or bore the surname “Skinny. These wealthy sisters each lived on a different side of the river and built a bridge to make it easier to get to each other for tea.<\/p>\n
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<\/strong>In addition to three legends, there’s probably a lot you didn’t know about the Skinny Bridge:<\/p>\n\n