The Erasmuspark

The Erasmuspark is a spot for everyone, young and old, situated in the Amsterdam West district. If you want to walk, have a picnic, play soccer, enjoy the sun or just go jogging, the Erasmuspark is definitely one of the best solutions.

Since 1990 it belongs to the district Bos en Lommer, which is by far the greenest district of Amsterdam. The Erasmuspark is situated at the Jan van Galenstraat, between the Admiralengracht and the Mercatorstraat.

The park is in use the entire year. With the construction of the public gardens a connection was created between the diverse recreation areas such as the Erasmuspark and the national gardens - and sport complexes. Many green areas you can find along the open territories of schools and playgrounds.

Such as all parks also the Erasmuspark has rules:

The playgrounds and children play areas are prohibited for dogs. Dogs need to be leashed within the park! In the summer time the park is supervised 24/7. In the evening the park gets closed at 11pm and opened at 8am in the morning.

All trees that occur in tree horoscope can be found in the Erasmuspark. At the trees little tags are placed concerning information about the tree itself and its meaning in the horoscope.

Initially the park was constructed in a simple way by using simple resources. Just after 2000 a large overhaul was carried out, resulting in a beautiful and full-fledged town park.

The park was named after the famous Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536) in the year 1939.