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Places to visit in Rotterdam

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Old Harbour (Oude Haven)

The Oude Haven is Rotterdam's oldest harbour, dating back to 1350, and today it's one of the most striking spots in a city famous for bold architecture and reinvention. The harbour was established in the mid-14th centur…

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City Hall Rotterdam

Rotterdam City Hall is one of the few pre-war buildings still standing in the city centre, a grand Beaux-Arts structure that survived the devastating German bombing of May 14, 1940. The building was designed after a com…

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Schouwburgplein

Welcome to one of the world's most modern and playful urban squares. Schouwburgplein opened in 1996 following a revolutionary late-1990s redesign by West 8, the landscape architecture firm founded by visionary designer A…

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Coolsingel

Coolsingel is the main boulevard of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, a broad avenue through the city centre lined with civic buildings, shops and postwar architecture. It looks so unlike a classic Dutch canal town because …

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Lijnbaan

Lijnbaan is a pedestrian shopping street in the centre of Rotterdam, opened in 1953 as part of the city's rebuilding after the Second World War. It is widely described as one of the first purpose-built car-free shopping …

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