Walk off the main flagstones. The side canals are the part visitors miss because the first café is convincing.
It is a cultural landscape, a lived canal street. It is not a historic monument with a single gate, which is why the gardens are separate pages.
Getting there
Central. Several metro stops leave you a short walk away. Evening is the pretty hour. Morning is when the street is a street.
Staying nearby
This is a fair place to sleep if the room is on a side lane. On the canal itself you will hear the evening twice. A metro hotel nearby is the quieter version of the same walk.