new canals were laid out the prince and kaiser and heather knox for which the city's famous today. the newer expansions the more recent expansions were usually the places where the most affluent people would move to because then it had become too crowded in the end all the parts of the city and the new parts obviously gave the possibilities to build on a grander scale like this elegant house built in sixteen some two one for a wealthy merchant. behind a spacious home there's a garden and coachman's house a typical set up back then to ensure overcome first destroyed by a prosperous merchant and his family in one thousand nine hundred four the house was acquired by a powerful merchant family the band loons. they were involved in the international trade and also in insurance policies so over the course of time due to these. trade activities they were. gaining some fortune and wealth. today part of the home is a museum the funny furnished rooms bring to life the grand lifestyle of the wealthy dutch merchants. when you enter you enter through a seventeenth century facade and then you wa