Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Shadow is a massive concrete sculpture in Rotterdam, designed by Onno Poiesz (1974), inspired by the German bomber Heinkel HE-111. The monument is a stylized scale model of this German bomber. The statue was unveiled on October 10, 2009 by deputy mayor Henk van der Pols. The aircraft stands upright with the nose up and rests on the tail. The statue is about five meters high and four meters twenty wide.

Wikipedia: De Schaduw (NL)

St Mary's Church or the English Church is an Anglican church in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is part of the Archdeaconry of North West Europe in the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England.

Wikipedia: St Mary's Church, Rotterdam (EN)

The Norwegian Zeemanskerk is a church in Rotterdam, located on the Westzeedijk next to the entrance to the park.

Wikipedia: Noorse Zeemanskerk (Rotterdam) (NL)

The Park, also Park van Zocher, Park near the Euromast is a park in Rotterdam in the Scheepvaartkwartier that was created in a few phases between 1853 and 1900.

Wikipedia: Het Park (Rotterdam) (NL)

The Tax & Customs Museum is a museum on a theme of historical and social importance and gives people insight into why we pay taxes, but also how and on which goods, possessions and services were taxed over time. The museum offers young and old a journey of discovery through the history of taxes in the Netherlands and the world of Customs.

Wikipedia: Belasting & Douane Museum (NL), Website

The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam is a natural history museum located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Natural History Museum Rotterdam (EN), Website

Museumpark is an urban park in Rotterdam, Netherlands, located between the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Westersingel, Westzeedijk and the complex of the Erasmus MC, a medical centre affiliated with the Erasmus University.

Wikipedia: Museumpark (EN)

The Kunsthal is an art space in Rotterdam. It opened in 1992.

Wikipedia: Kunsthal (EN), Website

The Church of the Holy Orthodox Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky is a Russian Orthodox church building on the Schiedamsesingel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The church belongs to the diocese of The Hague and the Netherlands of the Moscow Patriarchate and is the first traditional Russian Orthodox church building in the Netherlands. The services are celebrated in Church Slavonic and the most important readings are repeated in Dutch.

Wikipedia: Alexander Nevskikerk (Rotterdam) (NL), Website

The Walloon Church with adjoining sexton's house in Rotterdam is located in the Center on the Schiedamse Vest and is a national monument, the church and the sexton's house were built in 1923-1925 in a traditionalist style, somewhat in the style of Kropholler, to a design by J. Verheul Dzn. and J. van Wijngaarden.

Wikipedia: Waalse Kerk (Rotterdam) (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)

The Volharding 1 is a steam-powered Dutch tugboat. The ship was built as Harmonie 6 at Scheepswerf de Hoop in Hardinxveld for Mr. Van Loon from Vreeswijk. He ordered the ship as a "Zeeland-type" with open bunker hatches and with the mast lowerable forward. The power had to be at least 28 HP. During the sea trials, Mr. P. Sarras acted as captain. A steam-powered upright light engine (generator) was used to generate electricity on board.

Wikipedia: Volharding 1 (schip, 1929) (NL)

The Harbour Museum is located in and on the Leuvehaven in the South Holland city of Rotterdam. The museum collection includes ships, harbour cranes and other port-related objects from the period 1850-1970. Since September 2014, the Harbour Museum has merged with the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. Both museums will merge under the name Maritime Museum Rotterdam.

Wikipedia: Havenmuseum (NL)

De Boeg is a war memorial in Rotterdam. It commemorates the 3500 people on board Dutch merchant ships who lost their lives in the Second World War. The monument of Fred Carasso was unveiled on 10 April 1957 by Princess Margriet on the corner of the Boompjes and the Leuvehaven. The 46-metre-high aluminium construction symbolises a bow in the concrete waves. Later, on 15 July 1965, an 8-metre-high bronze sculpture group was added to the monument: a helmsman, three sailors and a drowned man. On the side is the text: "They kept course".

Wikipedia: De Boeg (Rotterdam) (NL), Url