Where is Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam?

At Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197, in the Centrum district of Amsterdam. The nearest tram or metro stop is Rokin, on metro line 52, about three minutes away.

Which museums and sights are near Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam?

Rembrandt House Museum is 400 m away, Our Lord in the Attic is 550 m away, National Maritime Museum is 1.3 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam have a swimming pool?

Yes. It has a heated indoor pool in the hotel's spa, with a sauna and a Turkish steam bath.

When did Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam open?

In 1992. It has rooms and suites in a former convent and city hall.

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Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam

Few hotels have had as many lives. The Grand began as two convents, became the lodging the city kept for visiting princes, then the Admiralty's headquarters, and then, when Napoleon's brother took the old city hall on the Dam for his palace, the city hall itself.

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 1992
Rooms: Rooms and suites in a former convent and city hall
Area: Oudezijds Voorburgwal

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What sets Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam apart

Two convents
The site was taken by two convents in the fifteenth century, St Cecilia's to the north and St Catherine's to the south, round courtyards that still give the hotel its shape.
The Prinsenhof
After the Reformation the city turned the convent into a lodging for princes and great lords, the Prinsenhof, and in the seventeenth century the Admiralty of Amsterdam moved in.
The city hall
In 1808 Louis Bonaparte took the city hall on the Dam for his palace, and the city's government moved here. It stayed until the 1980s, and the council chamber, with its lamps of the late 1920s, is now part of the hotel.
In the old centre
The hotel is on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal, one of the city's oldest canals, a few minutes from the Dam and the Nieuwmarkt.

What it has

Indoor pool
Spa
Restaurant
Bar
Courtyard

Where Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam is

Address

Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197
1012 EX Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nearest tram or metro

Rokin, on metro line 52, about three minutes away

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

A hotel since 1992

The buildings round the courtyard were begun as convents in the fifteenth century, and after the Reformation passed to the city, which used them as lodgings for royal guests and then gave them to the Admiralty.

From 1808 they were Amsterdam's city hall, until the city moved its government to a new building in the 1980s. In 1992 they opened as a hotel.