Poortugaal
Poortugaal is a village that is situated near the municipality of Rotterdam in the South Holland province of the Netherlands.

Poortugaal is a village that is situated near the municipality of Rotterdam in the South Holland province of the Netherlands. Together with neighbouring Rhoon, Poortugaal forms the municipality of Albrandswaard.
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Worth seeing in and around Poortugaal
One place 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.
- 01Communication Tower
The KPN-Zendmast Waalhaven, also known as Communication Tower, is a 191.5 metres self-supporting telecommunications tower located in Rotterdam in the Netherlands that was built in 1962. It is the tallest structure in Rotterdam and one of the tallest structures in the Netherlands.
3.5 km · telecommunications tower near Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Poortugaal
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 10 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 55 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 82 km
- Stations
- Tussenwater, 1.7 km · Zalmplaat, 2.9 km · Pernis metro station, 2.4 km · Waalhaven, 3.7 km
- Amsterdam → Poortugaal67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–11
- Eindhoven → Poortugaal88 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €12–16
- Maastricht → Poortugaal144 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €20–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Poortugaal
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 Poortugaal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextSpijkenisse is close enough to where the Delta Works are easy to explore in a day trip, taking a ride along the N57, which shows the feat of Dutch engineering from the closest you'll ever get to it.
From Wikivoyage: Spijkenisse, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Poortugaal
Poortugaal is 8 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Albrandswaardmunicipality of the Netherlands (since 1985)1.1 km
- Pernisdistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands2.5 km
- Rhoonvillage that borders the municipality of the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands2.3 km
- Hoogvlietdistrict of Rotterdam, Netherlands3.4 km
- Stadsregio Rotterdamconurbation surrounding the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands3.5 km
- Heijplaatneighbourhood in Rotterdam3.3 km