Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

During the German occupation of the Netherlands between 1940 and 1945, during the Second World War, Allied air forces carried out a number of operations over Rotterdam and the surrounding region. They included bombing strategic installations; leaflet-dropping; and during, the last week of the war, dropping emergency food supplies.

Wikipedia: Allied bombing of Rotterdam in World War II (EN)

The Old or Pilgrim Fathers' Church is a church located in Rotterdam-Delfshaven, in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Pilgrim Fathers Church (EN)

Nieuwe Instituut is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture. NI is in a building designed by Jo Coenen at Museumpark 25 in the centre of Rotterdam, adjacent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The building contains a shop, exhibition space, study centre, and archive, as well as the Sonneveld House, a pond, and a small park.

Wikipedia: Het Nieuwe Instituut (EN), Website

Huis Sonneveld in the South Holland city of Rotterdam was built between 1932 and 1933 by architect Leendert van der Vlugt of Bureau Brinkman & van der Vlugt on behalf of A.H. Sonneveld, then a member of the board of directors of the Rotterdam company Erven De Weduwe J. van Nelle. Huis Sonneveld, together with the nearby Huis Boevé, designed by the same architect in the same style, is a national monument.

Wikipedia: Huis Sonneveld (NL), Website

The Chabot Museum is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Wikipedia: Chabot Museum (EN)

Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at the Museumpark in the district Rotterdam Centrum, close to the Kunsthal and the Natural History Museum.

Wikipedia: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (EN)

Kunstinstituut Melly is a contemporary art gallery located in a former school building on Witte de Withstraat, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1990 and originally named after the street it was located on. It presents curated exhibitions, symposiums, live events, educational programs, and has a separate art literature publishing arm.

Wikipedia: Kunstinstituut Melly (EN), Website

El trotamundos is a mural in the Cool district of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The mural was created in 2007 by Chilean artist Jorge Kata Nuñez.

Wikipedia: El trotamundos (NL)

The Scots International Church or the Scottish Church is located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. An English-language Protestant church in the Presbyterian tradition, it is part of the Church of Scotland, within the Church's Presbytery of Europe.

Wikipedia: Scots International Church (EN)

Fikkie is a statue by artist Joeki Simák, which is located on the Oude Binnenweg in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The statue was presented to the city in 1963 in honour of the 10th lustrum of the Rotterdamsch Studenten Corps (RSC). The statue was unveiled on 16 November 1963 by Karel Paul van der Mandele, then chairman of the Board of Curators of the Netherlands School of Economics (NEH). The sculpture Fikkie symbolises the comparison with students: young and headstrong.

Wikipedia: Fikkie (Rotterdam) (NL)

Santa Claus, popularly known as the Buttplug Gnome, is a 2001 statue by artist Paul McCarthy in the Eendrachtsplein square of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Santa Claus (sculpture) (EN), Website

The Paradijskerk is an old Catholic church building on the Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam.

Wikipedia: Paradijskerk (NL)

The Unbroken Resistance monument is a war memorial in Rotterdam. It commemorates Rotterdam resistance fighters who died in the Second World War and Rotterdam fallen in general.

Wikipedia: Ongebroken verzet (NL)

Pauluskerk is a church building on the Mauritsweg in the center of Rotterdam. The first St. Paul's Church there was inaugurated in 1960 by the Reformed Congregation of Rotterdam and was demolished in 2007. On the same site, church activities resumed in 2013 in a new futuristic-looking structure, designed by the English architect Will Alsop.

Wikipedia: Pauluskerk (Rotterdam) (NL)

Rotterdamse Schouwburg is a theatre in Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Rotterdamse Schouwburg (EN), Website

The Coolsingelpoort on the Lijnbaan in the Dutch city of Rotterdam was the back gate of the former Coolsingel hospital on the Coolsingel.

Wikipedia: Coolsingelpoort (NL)

The stylized flower is a nickname of the Dutch artwork without a title at the entrance of the Bijenkorf department store in Rotterdam, designed by Naum Gabo. It is considered the most important work in his oeuvre. In the walk, the sculpture is called "the thing".

Wikipedia: De gestileerde bloem (NL)

Gijsbert Karel, Count van Hogendorp was a liberal conservative and liberal Dutch statesman. He was the brother of Dirk van Hogendorp the elder and the father of Dirk van Hogendorp the younger.

Wikipedia: Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (EN)

The Schielandshuis is a 17th-century building in the centre of Rotterdam on the Korte Hoogstraat. It was built between 1662 and 1665 by order of the Schieland Water Board.

Wikipedia: Het Schielandshuis (NL)

The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1874 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Maritime Museum Rotterdam (EN), Website

The Destroyed City is a bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval centre of the city. Unveiled in 1953, it was designated as a Dutch national monument (Rijksmonument) in 2010. It is the largest sculpture by the Russian-born French sculptor Ossip Zadkine, his best known work, and the best known sculpture in Rotterdam.

Wikipedia: The Destroyed City (EN)

Kids Marina is a children's harbour where electric boats sail in the heart of Rotterdam.

Wikipedia: Kids Marina (NL)

The Markthal is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam. The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.

Wikipedia: Market Hall (Rotterdam) (EN)

The cube houses in Rotterdam are 38 cube-shaped pile houses and 13 company cubes at the Blaak near the Oude Haven. They were built between 1982 and 1984, after a first presentation of the plans in 1978. Piet Blom's design is a variation on the Helmond cube house in a slightly larger grid. The viaduct on one floor is officially called the Overblaak, but the entire complex is known as the Blaakse Bos. The cube houses are built in the shape of a tilted cube on a pole, and are also known as stilt houses or tree houses.

Wikipedia: Kubuswoningen (Rotterdam) (NL)

Netherlands Marine Corps Museum is a museum on the history of the Netherlands Marine Corps. Since December 1995 it has been housed in a building on the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam. Since 2014 it has been one of the four museums managed by the Koninklijke Stichting Defensiemusea (KSD).

Wikipedia: Netherlands Marine Corps Museum (EN), Website