The Weigh House:

turn right along the Nieuwe Rijn and walk one block to the next bridge

At the top of the rise, you have a view out over the Stille Rijn.

The Weigh House (1667) is on your left. An earlier weigh house stood here when the Pilgrims arrived in 1609; their boat from Amsterdam moored at the quai where the crane stood that unloaded market goods brought by boat to be sold in the markets along the river. Everything had to be weighed officially before it could be sold. The ancient scales still hang in the Weigh House, where concerts and exhibitions are held now. Ahead you see a modern footbridge that ends on the place where the crane was.

Later you will cross towards the Weigh House on this footbridge, but for the moment, turn right and enter the Donkere Steeg, an alley which takes you in one block to the Haarlemmerstraat, where you turn left.

At the end of the Donkere Steeg, jog left on the Haarlemmerstraat to the intersection dominated by the Hartebrug Kerk, a Roman Catholic church built in 1835. Turn right on the Lange Mare and go along this church to the first street behind it, which is the Vrouwekerk Koorstraat. Turn left to reach the picturesque ruins of the