Magna Plaza is an indoor shopping centre located in the former Amsterdam Main Post Office and a historical building just behind the Royal Palace.
The the building itself is an attraction, being a building listed in Top 100 Dutch heritage sites. Built in a beautiful mix of Neo-Gothic, Renaissance and Dutch Colonial Revival styles. The exterior is demonstrates the use of Neo-Gothic and Dutch Colonial exterior, with it's log souring lines and gambrel roof, beautifully complemented with an eye-catching stone decoration of polychromatic bricks and detailed in dressed stone,
The Magna Plaza is a lovely place to shop and as you can imagine from it's location, also an upper end shopping destination. The interiors are just as beautiful as the exterior, with a central hall with galleries on each floor surrounded by Renaissance style arcades of polychromic curved arches. The central atrium is crowned by a sunroof that gives the who interior a nice warm orange glow.
As for the shopping, can't go wrong visiting the Magna Plaza. I came here to buy some gifts to take back home and I highly recommend Cheese & More by...
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Read moreThe Former Amsterdam Main Post Office, currently a shopping mall known as Magna Plaza, is a monumental building located at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 182, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was built in 1895–1899 in Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance style. This building is called magna plaza now it is a shopping center but there are low number of shops in it.Main thing about this building is that it has artistic touch,its so fascinating and worth viewing but many places are still under...
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