Nieuw Sloten is a neighborhood of
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
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Nieuw Sloten was created in the 1990s because the Netherlands failed to become the host of the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
, losing to
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, an agreement was made with local farmers and construction would then begin, Nieuw Sloten would almost overwhelm the older counterpart
Sloten, but thanks to local disagreement and defence of the village by the locals, the village was kept untouched along with a small part of the former
polders in which the buildings of
Nieuw-West
Amsterdam Nieuw-West () is a Boroughs of Amsterdam, borough (Dutch language, Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') comprising the westernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created in 2010 after a merger of the former boroughs Osdorp, ...
currently stand on today.
Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam
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