Today I'm showing you another place I visited in the Netherlands : Rotterdam.
Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and has one of the largest ports in the world : the port is the third busiest port in the world (after Singapore and Shanghai). It is also a very old port since it has been used for 7 centuries !
This is a beautiful picture I found of Erasmusbrug (Erasmus Bridge). This cable-stayed bridge is more than 800 meters long. One part of it is a bascule bridge that opens for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Europe. Erasmusbrug is sometimes used for some events.
You can see the bascule bridge open in the next two pictures I took myself.
And here you can see the old part of the port :
During World War II, the German army invaded the Netherlands in 1940. The city of Rotterdam was bombed and the heart of the city was almost completely destroyed. Nevertheless, the City Hall survived the bombing.
Sculptor Ossip Zadkine later captured the bombing with his statue De Verwoeste Stad (The Destroyed City) which you can see below.
After the war, most buildings had to be rebuilt and that is the reason why Rotterdam has such a mixture of old and modern architecture, such as the Kubuswoningen (the cube houses).
And of course, the bronze statue of Erasmus of Rotterdam :
You can also see my other posts:
Den Haag
Utrecht
Zaanstreek
Kinderdijk
Gouda
I hope you're all having a great day :-)
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