Amsterdam Kicks Off Year-Long 750th Anniversary Celebration with Coin, Concert

Amsterdam turns 750 years old on October 27, 2025 and the city will be celebrating with almost 300 activities and around the same number of neighborhood festivals, street parties, concerts, and exhibits.

Amsterdam began celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding on Sunday with a special coin and a grand concert in the Ziggo Dome, NU.nl reports.

The city will be celebrating the milestone for almost a year with 300 activities, including neighborhood festivals, street parties, concerts, and exhibits.

The celebrations kicked off on Sunday with Mayor Femke Halsema minting the first of the celebratory 5-euro coins, which feature a portrait of King Willem-Alexander on the front and the St. Andreas crosses from Amsterdam’s coat of arms on the back, among other things.

The concert in the Ziggo Dome featured appearances by Jeangu Macrooy, André Hazes, and Van der Laan & Woe, among many others. It began with a medley of classics about the city, including Aan de Amsterdamse grachten and Geef mij maar Amsterdam. André Hazes performed part of his father’s classic Bloed, zweet en tranen.

Niels van der Laan and Jeroen Woe sang about the history of Amsterdam in one minute, following the form of their popular program Even tot hier. Every week in that program, they compress a current topic into a satirical song of 60 seconds. Instead of the plastic piano that accompanies the duo on Even tot hier, the song on Sunday was accompanied musically by the entire Metropole Orchestra.

Several artists also expressed support for the Palestinians and drew attention to their plight. After her performance, singer Sophie Straat held up a piece of paper with the text, translated from Dutch: “The Netherlands has blood on its hands.” She sang the song Gebroken spiegels to celebrate Amsterdam’s liberal spirit and desire for freedom. Mocromaniac shouted “Free Palestine!” after his performance and before leaving the stage.