The Spui square holds the weekly Amsterdam Book Market under the open sky. Wooden stalls packed with leather-bound antiquarian volumes, old maps, and rare prints crowd the cobblestones every Friday. Booksellers from across the Netherlands bring collections that spent decades in private attics before landing here. A local collector once found a seventeenth-century manuscript tucked inside a mislabeled box of cooking magazines, a discovery that keeps the regulars scanning the dusty shelves for hidden history long after the morning light fades.
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