I covered most of Downtown in about 40 minutes.
Rotterdam is the second city of the Netherlands, and is currently competing with Singapore for the title 'largest port in the world', after being the largest port in the world for decades.
Because the Germans bombed Rotterdam during WW2, the original downtown was completely destroyed.
It's been rebuild in a modern way, after the economy recovered.
It is the most modern city in the Netherlands, and the only city with a lot of tall office buildings in its downtown.
We'll start with the area around Central Station:
the headquarters of an insurance company, and the tallest building in the Netherlands:
the Westin Hotel:
What a canyon effect!
shopping streets, with City Hall in the distance:
Square around the cinema:
the red cranes are symbolic, meant to show that Rotterdam is a harbour city.
Moving on to the shopping area:
The 'Koopgoot', or 'buying ditch' (literally translated). This is the newest shopping area in downtown, I thought it has been completed in 1996
There's tramways all over downtown:
the World Trade Center:
St. Laurentius Church:
More Shopping:
A glimpse of the city's industrial past:
The market square:
FLTR: Public Library, modern residential developments with exceptional architecture, the Willem's Bridge, and more to the right there's a subway/ tramway/ railway station (that dome-ish building):
Inside the Public Library:
Skyline shots from the top floor of the Public Library:
the Erasmus Bridge:
Some of Rotterdam's most (in)famous architecture:
Some last skyline shots:
That's all for now,
Have a nice Christmas!>
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