Erasmus Monument
Freestanding tiled facade marking a humanist's birthplace, its portrait dissolving into text up close.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Erasmus Monument in Rotterdam starts at a single tile on a freestanding wall of more than fourteen hundred, then turns to the small street where the humanist Erasmus was born in the fourteen sixties. It follows a priest's son, an aunt with a tavern, and the Rotterdam merchants who found uses for his name centuries later. Best heard standing close enough to the tiles to touch them.
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