#graaf

The Gravenstraat (Counts street) is a street in the center of Amsterdam. The street connects the Nieuwendijk with the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. The history of the name of the street goes back to the period 1299-1345, when the counts of Henegouwen, when they stayed in Amsterdam, stayed in the inn located on the site of the current street. The name Gravenstraat already existed in the fifteenth century