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The Kalverstraat is the most expensive shopping street in the Netherlands, with rents of up to 3000 euros per square meter (2016). In 2009 it was the 17th most expensive street in the world measured by rent prices. The Kalverstraat is also the most expensive street in the Dutch version of
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department store opened on the Kalverstraat in 1926. On May 7, 1945, drunk German soldiers shooting from the windows of a building at the corner of Kalverstraat and Dam square
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miracle was said to have taken place in a home between the Kalverstraat in the
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Parool.nl "Kalverstraat stijgt plek in lijst duurste winkelstraten"
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connected the Kalverstraat with this pilgrim chapel, and with
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is located in a former orphanage between Kalverstraat and
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lived at Kalverstraat 154 from 1892 to 1895. The first
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[ˈkɑlvərˌstraːt]
[ˈkaləvərˌstrɑːt]
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