Monument in Dam Square

From the May 4, 1956 This monument is erected in front of the Royal Palace, surrounded by the Hotel Krasnapolsky, Bijenkorf shopping center and the building of De Groote Industrieele Club, Grand Club Industry. Each May 4, at the Dam is made the solemn and austere ceremony commemorating the Victims Day in World War II.
In the central part of the monument stands a blunt obelisk surrounded by other allegorical figures, this place was built the first dam (dam in Dutch), in the thirteenth century on the river Amstel, allowing the first flood control .