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Extract from the Rotterdam Travel Guides:
Just beyond Delft lies
ROTTERDAM
, at the heart of a maze of rivers and artificial waterways which forms the seaward outlet of the rivers Rhine (Rijn in Dutch) and Maas. An important port as far back as the fourteenth century, it was one of the major cities of the Dutch Republic, and today, with the adjoining dockland area of
Europoort
, is the largest port in the world. The Luftwaffe bombed the town centre to pieces in 1940, and rebuilding has produced a sterile assembly of concrete and glass. However, the city has its moments, not least in one of the best and most overlooked galleries in the country, the Boymans-Van...
read the whole Rotterdam Travel Guides...
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