Since Don is no longer publishing his Rotterdam blog, we thought we'd show you one of the most famous bridges in The Netherlands.
As much as symbol of Rotterdam as the Golden Gate is to San Francisco, the Erasmusbrug (Erasmus bridge) spans the river Maas in the heart of the city.
The bridge was completed in 1996. Evidently there were initial problems with swaying on the bridge which were quickly fixed. A portion of the bridge is a drawbridge, which is necessary to allow some of the large ships that enter the port to pass underneath.
It is named, of course, for Rotterdam's famous humanist Erasmus.
You can still see the Erasmusbrug posts from Don's blog, along with his excellent commentary on Rotterdam's architecture, here.
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23 comments:
Nice to have posted this bridge, it is one of the Dutch landmarks.
Great photo and a beautiful bridge. A very interesting design.
I don't know how these kinds of bridges work or how they are held up but they certainly are beautiful.
16 Ghosts on Bridge?
great design
Very sculptural bridge image.
A very special bridge, but I like the old ones more.
Have you noticed that every large city in the world seems to have one of these white modern bridges? A sign of the times, I guess. Happy theme day!
what a splendiferous bridge - Hyde DP is carrying permalinks to the bridge posts and will be updated at intervals until Dec 2nd.
This is a great piece of architecture, very nice!
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Wow, that is such a beautiful bridge! Nicely captured. Wonderful composition.
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it's like a harp, beautiful design.
What spectacular structure!
Erasmus would have been proud ;-)
Pretty trippy!
What an amazingly striking bridge.
wow nice bridge.
Très belle harpe !
Very fine harp.
An amazing engineering marvel! Looks like artwark.
Beautiful photo for theme day.
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The locals call it The Swan, though---De Zwaan in Dutch.
This is spectacular! I just saw Matt Lauer on Today doing a piece on this bridge during his "Where in the World is Matt Lauer" segment.
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wawooo wat a bridge.that is civil
This blog is amazing!!!I love to drive by a bridge, actually there are bridge beautiful for their structure or their size. simply love it. I´ll approach
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