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• Highly recommendable. Very pleasant guide. Tour Loaded with insights you will very unlikely hear anywhere else

  tobiaswZ5504US,,Dec 20, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  We had a wonderful tour on the financial history of Amsterdam with Tijs as part of a student excursion. He is a very pleasant and knowledgeable guide who took us to many different places around the city. Many of the sites and stories he shared were real hidden gems—things you would never come across in a standard guidebook or on a typical tour. Tijs clearly has many years of experience and has built up an impressive amount of insider knowledge, which he enjoys sharing with great enthusiasm. I felt genuinely enriched after the tour, leaving with new insights, historical knowledge, and plenty of fun facts to think about. The tour is quite long and involves a fair amount of walking, and by the end most of us were rather exhausted—while Tijs still seemed as fresh and energetic as at the start. All in all, a highly recommendable tour that we enjoyed very much.

• Fascinating historical tour highlighting the beginning of the World’s first stock market and much more.

  Getaway62727193071,,May 31, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  My husband is a history and finance major. Having been to Amsterdam a few times we were excited to find this Financial History. Edgar was so interesting, detailing the history of finance including all the political history of the Netherlands. We would highly recommend him. Check out his other tours too.

• Fabulous Tour!

  Thomas D,,Apr 6, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Fabulous tour if you are interested in the extent that the Dutch have been in the forefront of financial innovation. Tijs de Boer is a fabulous tour guide and full of insights as well as local hints on any and everything. Highly recommend taking this tour.

• Wonderful walking tour— 5 stars!

  joe j,,Mar 29, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  We had our tour with Tijs — everything was perfect. He walked us on a beautiful route, stopping along the way with great narration tied into Amsterdam’s rich financial history. Our guide was personable and knowledgeable— highly recommended!

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Great tour

  BakleySmith,,Mar 1, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  This was a really great tour. The topic is rich, and I would say, very under appreciated. Edgar, the tour guide, did a wonderful job shedding light on very interesting topics and threads. Not least, just how much of the modern world took shape here in Amsterdam. As an American and a person who lived in New York, the connections are many and illuminating but surely there is plenty here for anyone.

• Great tour

  WillL782,,Dec 27, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Very informative walking tour of Amsterdam focused on the city’s history in finance! Had a mix of teens and us old folk. Highly recommended.

• Super fascinating financial tour of Amsterdam

  lucavG7045TE,,Nov 23, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Really interesting tour, with lots of history and fabulous insights into why Amsterdam was the biggest financial centre in the world in its prime. But even beyond that period, learn about the 2nd biggest gold heist in history, learn about why the mayors of amsterdam live in the house they live in, see the building the first equity share ever was issued, and lots more.

• Step into the World of Old Amsterdam

  Guide29939710178,,Nov 19, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  The tour is a must for financial and banking aficionados and everyone who would like to step into the world of the origins of free trade, stock exchange, capitalism, royalty, religious wars, futures and the Tulip bubble, and Amsterdam's culture. The guide was able to answer my questions and relate to my interests. He also took some marvelous pictures and showed me illustrations of how Amsterdam was centuries ago to bring his stories to life. Wonderful pacing and engaging conversations!

  

  

  

  

  

• I'm still thinking about how good this tour was a year later

  patrickbK2679KL,,Jun 22, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  I am not usually one for guided tours, but my friends surprised me with this one, because they knew it appealed to my specific interests (Amsterdam and economics). And that's what made this tour so cool was how specific it got. Our guide, Edgar, was incredibly knowledgeable on the financial history of this city that's so important to the beginnings of capitalism. No matter how you feel about the c-word, capitalism shapes our world, and this tour gives you a detailed understanding of how Amsterdam is central to it. Edgar's knowledge on Rembrandt's crankiness with his clients, the beginnings of the Dutch stock exchange, the Dutch East India Company, the tulip mania, and Walraven van Hall, the banker who robbed a bank to stop the Nazis, made this tour a great afternoon. Edgar was also very friendly as he took us through the city. It's taken me a while to write this review (a whole year), but I was recently reminded how much tour companies depend on good reviews for people to find their good work. Let this late review come to some good use: This tour is so good, I'm still thinking about it a year later. Go ahead and take it.

• Fantastic tour

  maJ9187BB,,Jun 9, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Received this tour as a tip and gave it as a gift to mothers. With our notebook at the ready to write down the many facts and figures. And there are quite a few! Tijs is a fantastic storyteller with a good sense of humor.

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