Kop van Zuid
Kop van Zuid is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands, located on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas opposite the center of town.
Kop van Zuid is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands, located on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas opposite the center of town. The district is relatively young and includes the Wilhelmina Pier as well as the V bounded by the Rose Street and railway line on one side and the Rotterdam-Dordrecht Hilledijk, Hill Street and Rijnhaven on the other.
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Worth seeing in and around Kop van Zuid
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01De Kuip
Stadion Feijenoord, more commonly known by its nickname De Kuip, is a stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was completed in 1937.
2.6 km · stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian.
2.6 km · public research university in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ]) is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen.
1.5 km · art museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Rotterdam Ahoy
Rotterdam Ahoy is a multi-purpose complex with a convention centre and an indoor arena located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Opened originally in 1950, the current complex consists of three main venues: a fairs and events hall, a congress and conference centre, and the main venue the Ahoy Arena.
2.7 km · event arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05Erasmusbrug
The Erasmusbrug is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge. Construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996.
400 m · bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 06Euromast
Euromast is an observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands, designed by Hugh Maaskant constructed between 1958 and 1960. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade, and is a listed monument since 2010.
1.7 km · observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 07The Wayfarer
The Wayfarer is an oil-on-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, created c. 1500.
1.5 km · painting by Hieronymus Bosch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam · Wikipedia - 08Stadion Woudestein
The Stadion Woudestein, is a multi-use stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is currently used mainly for football matches and is the home stadium of the Excelsior men's and women's teams.
2.3 km · football stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 09Cube House
Cube houses are a set of innovative houses built in the cities of Helmond and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom. They are based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level; its main purpose being to optimize the space inside.
1.5 km · type of house designed by architect Piet Blom, built in Rotterdam and in Helmond, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 10Mevlana Mosque
The Mevlana Mosque is a mosque in northwestern Rotterdam, Netherlands which serves mainly Turkish-Dutch Muslims. The mosque, named after Rumi, was built in 2001 and has two minarets.
3.8 km · mosque in Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kop van Zuid
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 7 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 48 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 79 km
- Stations
- Rotterdam Centraal railway station, 2.5 km · Rotterdam Blaak railway station, 1.5 km · Zuidplein, 2.2 km · Beurs, 1.5 km · Rotterdam Zuid railway station, 1.2 km
- Amsterdam → Kop van Zuid59 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–11
- Eindhoven → Kop van Zuid86 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €11–15
- Maastricht → Kop van Zuid144 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €20–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kop van Zuid
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kop van Zuid. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe station at Haven connects directly to the ferry between Hook of Holland and Harwich (England).
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Next door to Kop van Zuid
Kop van Zuid is 2 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rotterdamcity in South Holland, the Netherlands1.7 km
- Delfshavendistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands3 km
- Feijenoorddistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands2 km
- Charloisdistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands3.5 km
- Rotterdam Centrumdistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands1.5 km
- Kralingen-Crooswijkdistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands3.4 km