Professional Private Tours
Tour of Rotterdam
Together with its Maritime Heritage and colourful atmosphere everything helps make it ideal to Tour with a friendly local Private Guide who has all the Stories behind the Best Sights. In Rotterdam we walk and talk our way out of the fantastic New Centraal Station to tram travel to Hotel New York and its emotive dock-side sculpture on the Wilhelmina Pier.
Then over the Erasmus Bridge, Zadkine statue to the WWII bombed city of Rotterdam, De Boeg memorial to those lost at Sea, then we walk across the pontoons between the ships and boats of the Maritime Museum to get to old Blaak harbor, Cube houses, New Market Hall, old Sint-Laurenskerk Church, Erasmus memorial, City Hall and Garden, among many other great sights along the way and the more we walk the more we see…
Historically, the name of Rotterdam comes from the fact that a dam was constructed in 1270 on the Rotte River, and together with the influence of old Delft, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre.
One of the newest buildings in Rotterdam that we can Tour is the new Market Hall which is full of colour, sounds, smells and tastes to be enjoyed every day of the week!
Starting in the 1950s through to the 1970s, the city was rebuilt around and by the Rotterdam City Hall which had survived the bombing. The Rotterdam City Council did not aim at rebuilding what was lost, but aimed to create a ‘new’ and better city. Very daring and totally new styles of residential flats and apartment’s, office buildings and recreation facilities resulted in a radical city center with a fantastic new skyline. In the 1990s, the Kop van Zuid was built on the south bank of the river as a new business center.