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Amsterdam provides the perfect city break if you fancy a weekend getaway, whether it’s with your partner, your friends or even with your children. There are many cheap hotels in Amsterdam, especially if you book with prontohotel.com where there are numerous Amsterdam hotel deals, even last minute ones.

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Christmas is over, and everybody is getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve! If you are looking forward to a real treat you might take into consideration to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Amsterdam! The streets of this gorgeous city in this spectacular night get crowded with tourist who have the difficult task to avoid firecrackers tossed by kids who get their kicks by scaring passers by! Pubs, bars and squares of the Northern Venice get crowded with people, who at midnight, gather on the streets in order to celebrate the incoming new year watching the wonderful fireworks. If you wish to see the fireworks show in a less crowded spot you might decide to do so from the balcony of one of the hotels in Amsterdam or to pick a nice place on one of the many bridges that cross the city’s canals.

Holland is a magic country. It is a land that was not discovered by people, nor people have been given it, but they have created it. The same magic might be found by the traveler in its capital: Amsterdam. In the Golden Age (17th century), the time of Rembrandt, Amsterdam was a wealthy town. And even now this city is still present. with its symbols loaded with history, like the wall plaques over doorways bearing the emblems of various crafts, the canals built at the height of the city’s greatness, the innumerable bridges stretching over the canals, alike but never identical. The town we see today is still a city of the 17th and 18th centuries where houses still seem to rise directly from the water. And it is here that the similarity between Amsterdam and Venice is most striking. In fact the most-quoted nickname for Amsterdam is “Venice of the North”. The idea of water cannot be separated from the history of the city whose name derives from a dam and a river (the Amstel). The idea of water leads to the harbor: here you can’t but imagine how it looked like at the end of the 18th century when it harbored over 2500 merchant vessels which supplied all Europe, often with exotic products from all over the world. In charming Amsterdam you will relive the magic of the country, and you will be enchanted by the voice of the past, that is still present.