A unique Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam tour!

Vincent van Gogh lived in Amsterdam for 13 months, long before his becoming an artist, to prepare for a theological exam. He took up lodgings with a paternal uncle, Jan, who was a naval commander, and Van Gogh wandered around the early industrial area between the navy quays and the brand new Central Station.
Also, he attended many sermons by preachers he knew or admired, in various churches and chapels in the oldest part of town.
Here he fell in love with a maternal cousin, and spent much time wooing her – to no avail. He also failed the exam, but eight years later, in 1885, he returned to Amsterdam to visit the newly opened Rijksmuseum.

This is a two-hour walk through a pretty, and pretty old, but largely neglected part of the city and the oldest port of Amsterdam.