Maritime Museums
Walking Parks and Boat Tours
Original and fascinating professional
guided walking tours. The heart of the second-largest city in the Netherlands
lies inside a triangle of main roads. This inner city can easily be explored on
foot within this triangle. The relatively short distances make a walk along
beautiful and interesting sights and exceptional museums, the perfect way to
discover Rotterdam.
City Tours daily walking tours in the mornings, afternoons
and during the evenings. Explore Rotterdam, including a guided visit to the St.
Lawrence Church, the White House, Erasmus, City Hall, St. Lawrence Church and the
Lijnbaan, Europe's first pedestrian shopping streets and much more! After the
walking tour, you could take a boat tour along the harbor.
The Museum Quarter from Sonneveld House, adjacent
to the Dutch Architecture Institute, you stroll through the peaceful museum
park to the stately Westersingel, containing the works of great sculptors such
as Rodin and Shapiro and Gallery van Waning, located in a historic patrician
house.
The Historic Maritime Quarter
& Harbor Museum located on the Nieuwe Maas, a stately 19th
Century neighborhood. On the 'Veerhaven' you can see many traditional seagoing
sailboats and yachts, there are no barriers such as bridges or locks making the
harbor ideal for sailing ships. Then you will travel by water-taxi to the
Harbor Museum in Leuvehaven and its collection of authentic and still working
ships, port equipment and engines covering the period 1850-1970.
Parks Tour a fascinating walk through
"The Park" on the Maas starts at the Norwegian Seaman's Church
Sjømannskirken, located on the Westzeedijk then enter ´Schoonoord´, a 300 year
old garden. The tour ends at the Euromast - the tallest observation tower in
the Netherlands.
Delfshaven a historic
area with over 600 years of history, it was the base Dutch East India
Company; the Pilgrim Fathers departed from it wharfs in July 1620. Formerly the
seaport of Delft, it is now a Rotterdam borough, a trendy area with restaurants,
galleries and the city’s only brewery.
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