Rotterdam

Flattened in 1940, rebuilt as the Netherlands' architecture playground: cube houses, a mirrored art depot and Europe's largest port. Much of the best is free — it's a city you look at, not queue for.

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D ~€20

?️ Musée ★★★★

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

The world's first fully accessible art storage: a mirrored bowl holding 154,000 works, where you browse the racks like a warehouse of masterpieces. Free forest on the roof.

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Comment économiserFree with the Museumkaart. The mirrored exterior and the rooftop forest (free entry via the lift on selected days) cost nothing.

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M GRATUIT

⭐ Point de repère ★★★★

Markthal

A horseshoe of apartments arching over a food market, its 11,000 m² ceiling artwork nicknamed the 'Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam'. Eat your way through it.

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Comment économiserFree to enter and photograph — budget instead for the food stalls. Cheaper lunch: the Binnenrotte open-air market outside (Tue & Sat).

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C Streets free · Kijk-Kubus €3

⭐ Point de repère ★★★

Cube Houses

Piet Blom's tilted yellow cubes from 1984 — an entire 'forest' of houses turned 45 degrees. One show cube is open so you can see how people actually live in them.

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Comment économiserWandering between the cubes costs nothing; the €3 show cube is one of the cheapest tickets in the country.

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E GRATUIT

⭐ Point de repère ★★★

Erasmusbrug & Kop van Zuid

'The Swan' — the 802 m bridge that became the city's logo. Cross on foot at dusk toward the skyscrapers of Kop van Zuid and the Hotel New York, the old Holland-America Line HQ.

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Comment économiserThe watertaxi across the Maas (a few euros) is the cheapest 'harbour cruise' in town.

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E ~€14.50

? Viewpoint ★★★

Euromast

The 185 m tower over the port: observation deck at 100 m, then the rotating 'Euroscoop' glass lift to the very top for a view across the entire harbour.

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Comment économiser25% off with the Rotterdam Welcome Card; online tickets are cheaper than the door. Sunset slots book out first.

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F ~€22 · Tornado & plaza free

?️ Musée ★★★

Fenix Museum of Migration

Opened in 2025 in a giant 1923 warehouse on Katendrecht: art and stories of migration, crowned by the 'Tornado' — a swirling stainless-steel double staircase over the Maas.

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Comment économiserFree with the Museumkaart; under-18s free. Climbing the Tornado viewpoint requires no museum ticket.

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S Tours from ~€17

?️ Experience / Tour ★★

SS Rotterdam

The 1959 flagship of the Holland-America Line, permanently moored at Katendrecht — now a hotel with guided tours through the engine rooms and mid-century salons.

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Comment économiserBoarding for a coffee on the aft deck is free — you only pay for the guided tours. Discounted via the Rotterdam Welcome Card.

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