The Schielandshuis

The Schielandshuis is the only 17th century building that survived the complete destruction of Rotterdam when it was bombed by the Germans in WW2.*

It's believed to have been designed by Pieter Post, an authority in Dutch Classicism and it's built between 1662 and 1665. The reason that nobody knows for sure is due to the big fire in 1864 that destroyed all important documents.

I remember that I loved this big house and monumental gardens when I was a teen in the early seventies, but it was a ruin then which was finally restored in full glory in 1978.

Now it's the smallest building completely embedded between the skyscrapers of Rotterdam's Manhattan skyline and functions as a museum.

* reminds me there is something else that might be nice to blip, but have to do some research where it is nowadays. Maybe tomorrow?