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Poortugaal

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

Poortugaal
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Communication 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Poortugaal
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–11
  • Eindhoven → Poortugaal
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €12–16
  • Maastricht → Poortugaal
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €20–29
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    161 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    418 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    632 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    694 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    714 km

If you know how people move in Poortugaal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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