Royal Palace of Amsterdam
It is situated on the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk.The structure was built as the Town Hall of the City of Amsterdam[2] "facing the landing wharfs along Damrak, which at that time would have been busy with ships".[3] The town hall was opened on 29 July 1655 by Cornelis de Graeff, the mayor of Amsterdam.[2] After the patriot revolution which swept the House of Orange from power a decade earlier, the new Batavian Republic was forced to accept Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as King Louis I of Holland in 1806.After holding his court at The Hague and Utrecht, Louis Napoleon moved to Amsterdam, and converted the Town Hall into a royal palace for himself.
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