Risen from Ruins Self Guided Tour of Rotterdam

Stand before the building that defied a firestorm and hid an act of musical rebellion in its bells.

Meet the man who escaped a castle in a book chest and rewrote the rules of nations.

Weigh the meaning of four figures frozen between grief and the resolve to begin again.

See the parchment in bronze that still governs Dutch elections and free trade today.

Step inside the address that hosted both Napoleon and the Tsar who defeated him.

Encounter the priest whose sharpest weapon was a well-placed joke about the Pope.

Walk into the last medieval survivor of a city that nearly erased its own past.

Look past the oversized fruits on the ceiling and hunt for the tiny insects hiding among them.

Piece together how a failed student's voyage to Argentina created the Netherlands' greatest comic hero.

Step beneath the tilted canopy of an urban forest designed to protest boring architecture.

Stand at the base of what was once Europe's tallest building, born from engineering the world was still learning.

Walk around a screaming bronze figure with a hole where its heart should be.

Taste the comfort food a barber accidentally invented with his regular lunch order.

Read the billboard that sparked protests demanding every city deserves a monument to hating your job.

Spot the diamond ring a street artist painted to propose to his girlfriend on this wall.

Consider why a giant bronze Santa holding a suspicious object became Rotterdam's most debated landmark.

See how a seventy-three-year-old master became captivated by a teenager's ponytail and changed fashion history.

Catch your own reflection in the mirrored bowl that holds over one hundred fifty thousand hidden artworks.App description