Here's a pretty view from the Oosterdok southward into Amsterdam with three of the city's towers. On the left the famous Schreierstoren of Henry Hudson fame built as part of the city's defenses at the end of the fifteenth century. Then the Geldersekade - once the city's outer moat dug in the fifteenth century - leading to the Zuiderkerk in the distance. It was built 1603-1611 as the first church in Amsterdam designed for Protestant worship. On the right the Catholic Basilica of St Nicholas built in 1887 soon after Catholics had regained their freedom of religious organisation in 1853.
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