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Rotterdam itinerary

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  1. 1

    Markthal - The Horseshoe Food Market With Europe's Largest Artwork

    Markthal is Rotterdam's calling card - a 40-metre-high horseshoe arch of apartments wrapped around a covered food market floor. Designed by MVRDV and opened in October 2014, the building holds 228 residential apartments…

    Address
    Dominee Jan Scharpstraat 298, 3011 GZ Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Blaak metro/train station (metro A, B, C; RandstadRail E), 2-min walk
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    Cube Houses (Kubuswoningen) - Piet Blom's Tilted Yellow Homes

    Piet Blom's Cube Houses are Rotterdam's most photographed post-war buildings - a cluster of 38 yellow cubes tilted at 45 degrees on hexagonal pylons, completed in 1984. Blom intended them as an abstracted forest, with…

    Address
    Overblaak 70, 3011 MH Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Blaak metro/train station (metro A, B, C), 1-min walk
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    Erasmus Bridge (Erasmusbrug) - The Swan of Rotterdam

    The 802-metre Erasmus Bridge is the sculptural spine of modern Rotterdam - a cable-stayed span designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio and opened in 1996 by Queen Beatrix. The 139-metre asymmetric white pylon leans at an…

    Address
    Erasmusbrug, 3011 BN Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Leuvehaven metro (lines D, E), 5-min walk to north-side ramp
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    Euromast - Rotterdam's 185-Metre Observation Tower

    The Euromast opened in 1960 for the Floriade horticultural expo and was originally 101 metres tall. In 1970 it was extended with a rotating Space Tower, adding another 85 metres and reaching its current 185 metres…

    Address
    Parkhaven 20, 3016 GM Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Vasteland tram stop (line 8), 8-min walk; or metro Dijkzigt (lines A, B, C), 10-min walk
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    SS Rotterdam - The Grande Dame of Dutch Ocean Liners

    The SS Rotterdam is the largest passenger ship ever built in the Netherlands - a 228-metre transatlantic liner launched in 1958 and the flagship of the Holland America Line for two decades. Retired from cruising in…

    Address
    3e Katendrechtse Hoofd 25, 3072 AM Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Rijnhaven metro (line D), 15-min walk; or Waterbus from Erasmusbrug pier, 6-min ride
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    Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - The World's First Public Art Depot

    The mirrored 39.5-metre bowl of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is one of the boldest museum buildings in Europe. Designed by MVRDV and opened in November 2021, it is the first publicly accessible art storage facility…

    Address
    Museumpark 24, 3015 CB Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Eendrachtsplein metro (line E), 7-min walk; or Museumpark tram stop (line 8), 3-min walk
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    Maritime Museum - Ships, Cranes and 300 Years of Port History

    The Maritime Museum is more than an indoor gallery - it wraps around the Leuvehaven, the oldest surviving harbour basin in Rotterdam (dug in 1598), which itself functions as a floating open-air museum full of historic…

    Address
    Leuvehaven 1, 3011 EA Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Leuvehaven metro (lines D, E), 2-min walk
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    Kunsthal Rotterdam - Rem Koolhaas's Cultural Provocateur

    The Kunsthal is Rem Koolhaas and OMA's 1992 built manifesto - a low, cross-shaped building of raw concrete, corrugated plastic and steel that sits on a slope in the Museumpark. It has no permanent collection; instead it…

    Address
    Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Eendrachtsplein metro (line E), 8-min walk; or Museumpark tram stop (line 8), 4-min walk
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    Delfshaven - Rotterdam's Only Surviving Historic District

    Delfshaven is the one district that survived the 1940 bombing largely intact - a small pocket of 17th-century canal houses, brick warehouses and a working windmill that shows what pre-war Rotterdam looked like. Built as…

    Address
    Voorhaven 12, 3024 RM Rotterdam, Netherlands (Pilgrim Fathers Church)
    Nearest transit
    Delfshaven metro (lines A, B, C), 5-min walk
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    Witte de Withstraat - Rotterdam's Best Eating and Drinking Street

    Witte de Withstraat is a 400-metre street between the Museumpark and the harbourfront that concentrates more good bars, cafes and restaurants per square metre than anywhere else in Rotterdam. It runs east-west between…

    Address
    Witte de Withstraat, 3012 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Nearest transit
    Eendrachtsplein metro (line E), directly at the west end

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