Historic Cities
Explore Rotterdam in 1690
AI rebuilds Rotterdam street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Rotterdam, Golden-Age Harbour, 1690
Rotterdam in 1690 is a compact, walled maritime town whose quays and canals form a triangle of harbours within its ramparts. The walk traces river quays, timbered merchant houses and tree‑lined canals past the Grote Markt, Laurenskerk and Delftse Poort, with East India ships and herring buses at the water's edge.
25 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 9 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Rotterdam as it stood in 1690 (“Timeline of Rotterdam”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Maas Approach
- 2. Groothoofd Quay
- ↳ East India Warehouse · interior
- 3. Boompjes
- ↳ Sailmakers' Workshop · interior
- 4. Oude Haven
- ↳ Waterside Tavern · interior
- 5. Leuvehaven
- ↳ Shipchandler's Loft · interior
- 6. Wijnhaven
- 7. Blaak Canal
- 8. Blaak Merchant Houses
- ↳ Marble-floored Voorhuis · interior
- 9. Binnenrotte Market
- ↳ Butchers' Hall · interior
- 10. Grote Markt
- ↳ Council Chamber · interior
- 11. Erasmus Statue
- 12. Laurenskerk Tower
- ↳ Whitewashed Nave · interior
- 13. Hoogstraat
- 14. Delftse Poort
- ↳ Gatehouse Guardroom · interior
- 15. Windmills on the Walls
- 16. Ramparts Overlook