Het Park
Winding English-style landscape park of ponds, lawns and old trees beside the river and a tall tower.
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This guide to Het Park in Rotterdam starts in eighteen fifty-one, when the city quietly bought a scruffy riverside estate with a very different use in mind than strolling. It follows a quarrel with neighbouring Delfshaven, a Haarlem father-and-son design team, and the tenants who still held leases on the land. Best heard beside the curving ponds, looking toward the slopes.
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