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Rotterdam Travel Guide - Netherlands Joyful Times
Rotterdam is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of South-Holland, situated in the west of The Netherlands and part of the Randstad. The municipality is the second largest in the country (behind Amsterdam), with a population of approximately 601,300 people and over 2.9 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area (combined with The Hague).
The port of Rotterdam is the largest in Europe. From 1962 to 2004, it was the world's busiest port; then it was superseded by Shanghai. Now Rotterdam is the fourth biggest port in the world. Rotterdam is known as a city of architecture. A few square kilometres of the city centre offers a complete overview of what the twentieth century has produced in terms of modern architecture. Due to this more modern atmosphere and the presence of several relatively high buildings (for Dutch standards), the city is especially interesting for Dutch people to visit.
The atmosphere of Rotterdam is absolutely distinct from other Dutch cities. The mentality can best be described as 'can do'. From the waiters you meet to the businessmen and the people who have just arrived as migrants, all of them breathe a dynamic optimism of getting forward with things and their town. The modern looks of the city, the bustle and its building spree all add to this impression. That said, you might also find that people are sometimes somewhat too straight with you. And yes, the city is not the cosiest, or the most picturesque of towns, especially on drab winter days. But; get acquainted with this small metropolis, easiest done on days of one of the festivals with nice weather, and you will come to love it.
Like any city in The Netherlands, Rotterdam is very, very bicycle-friendly. Getting around by bike is probably the fastest way of travel within the city. There are separate bike lanes on most major streets and there are separate traffic lights for bicyclists. Avoid getting your tire in the tram rails. Always cross tram rails at an angle. Always lock your bike securely when leaving it, preferably chained to a fixed object.
There are five metro lines operated by RET. Lines A (green), B (yellow) and C (red), share tracks between Schiedam Centrum and Capelsebrug and offer an east-west connection. Lines D (light blue) and E (blue, also known as RandstadRail) share tracks between Rotterdam Centraal and Slinge and offer a north-south connection. Interchange between all lines is possible on Beurs station in the city center.
The area around metrostation Blaak, called Oude haven (Old Harbour), is not only worth seeing but has also a lot of pubs and restaurants. The Rotterdam dining scene is developing very fast with new restaurants opening very often. While most of the attention focusses on new Michelin-star aspiring places, there is very much a trend towards high quality mid-range restaurants offering French/Dutch cuisine.
Innovation here takes many forms, and one that is immediately apparent is the quality of the coffee served in the city's huge array of cafes. Until recently, there was only one coffee roastery in Rotterdam – the excellent Man Met Brill – but at last count there were 12, all roasting direct-trade beans to caffeinate coffee-obsessed locals. Cafes of every type (hipster hole-in-the-walls to traditional grand cafes) dot the city streets, functioning as work and study spaces for the digital generation as well as places where friends and family catch up over a drink or casual meal.
A lot to see in Rotterdam such as :
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Euromast
Erasmusbrug
Rotterdam Zoo
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
UNESCO World Heritage Kinderdijk
Market Hall
Kunsthal. Rotterdam
Maritime Museum
Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk
Witte Huis
Miniworld Rotterdam
Arboretum trompenburg
Witte de Withstraat
the Rotterdam
Het Park
Fenix Food Factory
Wereldmuseum
Dutch Photo Museum
Plaswijckpark
Port of Rotterdam
Stadhuis
Oude haven
Blaak
The Destroyed City
Nieuwe Maas
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Kralingen Lake
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Sonneveld House
Museumpark
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Museum Rotterdam
Chabot Museum
Oceanium
Kralingse Bos
Willemsbrug
Oude Binnenweg
Beurstraverse
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Holland Casino Rotterdam
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Lage Bergse Bos
Netherlands Architecture Institute
Vroesenpark
Delft Pottery De Delftse Pauw
National Genever Museum Schiedam
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Delft is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands. It is located in the province of South Holland, to the north of Rotterdam and south of The Hague.
Delft is known for its historic town centre with canals, winding bike paths, Delft Blue pottery, the Delft University of Technology, jurist Hugo Grotius, painter Johannes Vermeer and scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek, and its association with the royal House of Orange-Nassau.
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Noordeinde Palace
Noordeinde Palace (Dutch: Paleis Noordeinde [paːˈlɛis noːrtˈɛində]) is one of the three official palaces of the Dutch royal family. Located in The Hague in the province of South Holland, it has been used as the working palace for King Willem-Alexander since 2013.
From farmhouse to palace[edit]
The palace originated as a medieval farmhouse, which was converted into a spacious residence by the steward of the States of Holland, Willem van de Goudt in 1533. The original farmhouse's cellars can still be seen in the palace basement.
From 1566 to 1591, the palace had a different owner. After that it was leased, and in 1595, purchased by the States of Holland for Louise de Coligny, the widow of William of Orange, and her son Prince Frederik Hendrik. In recognition of William’s service to the nation, the States presented the building to his family in 1609.
Frederik Hendrik substantially enlarged the house, which was then known as the Oude Hof. He began by buying the surrounding plots of land. The architects Pieter Post and Jacob van Campen, who built Huis ten Bosch Palace in 1645, were among those involved in the alterations. The alterations included lengthening the main building and adding wings on either side, thus creating the characteristic H-form that is seen today.
After Frederik Hendrik died in 1647, his widow, Amalia van Solms, spent much of her time at the Oude Hof. Following her death in 1675, the house was more or less empty for many years. After the death of the Stadholder-King William III in 1702, it passed to King Frederick I of Prussia, a grandson of Frederik Hendrik’s.
In 1740 Voltaire stayed in one of the apartments while he negotiated with Dutch publisher Jan van Duren about the Anti-Machiavel.[1] In 1754, King Frederick the Great of Prussia sold his land-holdings in the Netherlands to Stadholder William V.
The son of Stadholder William V, who would become King Willem I, took up residence at the Oude Hof in 1792. But when the French invaded the Netherlands in 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars, he and his family were forced to flee to England. The Oude Hof became the property of the Batavian Republic and hence state property, the status it has today. The gardens of the palace are open to the public.
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In 1813, after the fall of Napoleon, Prince Willem returned to the Netherlands, where he was proclaimed Sovereign Prince.
The Constitution of the time decreed that the State must provide a summer and a winter home for the sovereign. Initially there were plans to build a new winter residence, but in the end it was decided to make extensive alterations to the Oude Hof.
King Willem I moved into Noordeinde Palace in 1817, living there until his abdication in 1840. His successor, King Willem II, never resided there. Like his grandfather, King Willem III used Noordeinde as his winter home, though he preferred to live at his summer residence, Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn. In 1876, he had the royal stables built in the gardens behind Noordeinde Palace.
Even after King Willem III married Queen Emma, the royal family continued to use Noordeinde as their winter home. Their daughter, Princess Wilhelmina, was born there in 1880, and Queen Emma and her daughter spent their winters at Noordeinde after the King’s death in 1890. In 1895 the Queen Regent had premises for the Royal Archives built in the grounds
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In 1901, Queen Emma moved to Lange Voorhout Palace, today's Escher Museum, while Queen Wilhelmina and her husband Prince Hendrik remained at Noordeinde.
Until the German invasion in 1940, Queen Wilhelmina continued to make frequent use of Noordeinde Palace. After the war, the palace was again used as the Queen’s winter residence.
In 1948, the central section of the palace was destroyed by fire. That same year Juliana acceded to the throne. She preferred Soestdijk Palace as her official residence, though some members of the Royal Household continued to use offices in Noordeinde. Between 1952 and 1976 the Institute of Social Studies was based in the north wing of the palace. Following a thorough restoration in 1984, the Palace became the Dutch Monarch’s workplace and office for all political and stately affairs.
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Beautiful City of Delft, Netherlands
Delft is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands. It is located in the province of South Holland, where it is situated north of Rotterdam and south of the The Hague.
Delft is known for its historic town center with canals, Delft Blue pottery, the Delft University of Technology, painter Johannes Vermeer and scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek, and its association with the royal House of Orange-Nassau.
Highway and City: the impact of innovative mobility in 2040 – A13 Rotterdam case study
What will be the future of ring roads when self-driving cars – individually or shared – become mainstream and vehicles virtually emission-free? Mecanoo architecten, together with Abel Delft and Arnold Reijndorp, participated in the design study Highway and City to envision a future for Rotterdam’s Overschie neighbourhood, which is currently divided by the A13 highway.
The Highway and City research programme is a joint initiative of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects’ Research Department, Delft University of Technology, the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht, the province of Utrecht, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and Rijkswaterstaat. The design study was comprised of seven multidisciplinary teams focussing on five separate locations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
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New Netherland
New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
The colony was conceived as a private business venture to exploit the North American fur trade. During its first decades, New Netherland was settled rather slowly, partially as a result of policy mismanagement by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and partially as a result of conflicts with Native Americans. The settlement of New Sweden encroached on its southern flank, while its northern border was re-drawn to accommodate an expanding New England. During the 1650s, the colony experienced dramatic growth and became a major port for trade in the North Atlantic. The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to England in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. In 1673, the Dutch re-took the area but relinquished it under the Second Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War the next year.
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Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkoːnɪŋkrɛik dɛr ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)]; Papiamento: Reino Hulandes), commonly known as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with territory in western Europe and in the Caribbean. The four parts of the kingdom – Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten – are referred to as countries (landen in Dutch) and participate on a basis of equality as partners in the kingdom. In practice, however, most of the kingdom affairs are administered by the Netherlands (which comprises roughly 98% of the kingdom's land area and population) on behalf of the entire kingdom. This means that Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are dependent on the Netherlands for matters like foreign policy and defence, although they are autonomous to a certain degree with their own parliaments.
The vast majority of the constituent country of the Netherlands (as well as the kingdom) is located in Europe, with the exception of its three special municipalities (Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius) that are located in the Caribbean. The constituent countries of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are located in the Caribbean as well.
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Flevoland: Jüngste Provinz der Niederlande | WDR Reisen
Flevoland ist die jüngste Provinz der Niederlande. Die Polderlandschaft ist heute die größte künstlich angelegte Landfläche der Welt, Lebensraum für rund 400.000 Menschen und außerdem ein Naturparadies. Andrea Grießmann reist durch eine Gegend mit kurvenlosen Straßen und schnurgraden Feldern, entdeckt Inseln, die auf dem Trockenen liegen, und Orte mit jahrhundertealter Nordseetradition.
Flevoland steht für Altes und Neues: Die Stadt Almere entstand vor 40 Jahren komplett auf dem Reißbrett und ist ein Beispiel für modernes Wohnen. Die ehemalige Insel Schokland, heute Weltkulturerbe, lädt ein zu einer Zeitreise von der Eiszeit bis zur Gegenwart.
An vielen Stellen findet Andrea Grießmann moderne Landschaftskunstwerke mitten in der Natur. Platz zum Schwimmen, Segeln oder Angeln gibt es auf Flevoland natürlich auch satt.
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3. Dutch and British Exceptionalism
European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202)
Several reasons can be found to explain why Great Britain and the Netherlands did not follow the other major European powers of the seventeenth century in adopting absolutist rule. Chief among these were the presence of a relatively large middle class, with a vested interest in preserving independence from centralized authority, and national traditions of resistance dating from the English Civil War and the Dutch war for independence from Spain, respectively. In both countries anti-absolutism formed part of a sense of national identity, and was linked to popular anti-Catholicism. The officially Protestant Dutch, in particular, had a culture of decentralized mercantile activity far removed from the militarism and excess associated with the courts of Louis XIV and Frederick the Great.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Shared Character of the English and Dutch States: The Large Urban Middle Class
10:38 - Chapter 2. Anti-Absolutism in the Collective Consciousness: National Identity and Political Origins
18:50 - Chapter 3. Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Absolutism
26:33 - Chapter 4. The Canals of the Dutch Republic: A State Built around Sea Trade
40:43 - Chapter 5. Representations of Dutch Life in Painting: Emphasis on the Everyday
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Claudia Swan | Rarities of These Lands: Tulips & Other Exotica in the Making of Golden Age Holland
Scholar lecture by Claudia Swan, associate professor of Art History at Northwestern University, presented as part of the KAM exhibition Coveting Nature: Art, Collecting, and Natural History in Early Modern Europe, co-curated by Maureen Warren, curator of European and American Art at KAM and Anna Chen, head librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California at Los Angeles (On view at Krannert Art Museum August 31–December 22, 2017).
This lecture is the Fall 2017 Philipp Fehl Lecture in Art, honoring the work of the distinguished scholar and University of Illinois professor Philipp Fehl. Co-sponsored by the Department of Entomology, Department of History, and Krannert Art Museum.
About Krannert Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) promotes a vibrant exchange of ideas in the visual arts. KAM's rich permanent collection contains over 10,000 works of art dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present, representing a broad range of cultures and varied modes of expression. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, KAM is the second largest general fine arts museum in Illinois. It operates within the College of Fine and Applied Arts. More information can be found at kam.illinois.edu
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Here you can see about 600 pieces of historical monuments, including such basic as 5Monastyr Saint Barbara Church 6Vallonskaya 7Pamyatnik William of Orange and the silent mausoleum 8Renessansnaya Hall (1619) with a lookout tower; 9monastyr St. Agatha (XIV century). 10chasovnya sv.Ippolita (1400year) 11tserkov (1250) with the bell of the incident, (1325g) Museum Lambert van 12Natsionalny Meretna;
Delft (niderl. Delft) - city and community in the Netherlands province of South Holland, halfway between Rotterdam and The Hague. Located on the River Agricultural Institute. Population of more than 100 thousand people. The historic city center remained mostly from XVII century. In the XIX century Delft has grown considerably and become an industrial character. He is currently one of the major high-tech development centers in the Netherlands. This is mainly facilitated by the presence in the city of Delft Technical University and the government organization for applied research (TNO). Delft was the residence of William of Orange and the first capital of the Netherlands. William was killed here in 1584, and since then has traditionally been members of the royal family are buried Netherlands New Church in Delft. Currently operates as a religious building (services are held on Sundays and during religious holidays) and as a museum. It also regularly hosts concerts of organ music. The new church. (De nieuwe Kerk) at Market Square, the Gothic basilica built in the XIV century, is a crypt of the royal family. The spire of the Basilica, built in the XIX century, consists of 100 feet in length, placed on it chimes. Nivekerk (niderl. Nieuwe Kerk, IPA: The New Church) - Church in Delft (Netherlands), located on the main square in front of city hall. The first wooden church building was built in 1351 and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Construction of the stone church building began in 1396, in 1420 the church was built, the construction of the belfry was not until September 1496. New patron saint of the church was Ursula. The plan of the church conform to traditional symbolic Christian canons: Cross form - the symbol of Christ, 12 columns of the choir represent the 12 apostles, four square columns - four evangnlistov and 16 columns of the nave - 16 prophets. May 3, 1536 in the church tower struck by lightning, which caused a large fire, which resulted in the destroyed organ, bells and stained glass windows, collapsed roof of the upper nave. October 12, 1654 the church was badly damaged in an explosion at a gunpowder warehouse (amongst other things were lost stained glass), but in the spring of next year, has been restored and re-acted. In 1872, lightning destroyed the spire of the tower. The modern tower has a height of 108.75 m and is the second highest after the tower of Utrecht
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The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdərlɑnt] ( listen)) is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The European portion of the Netherlands consists of twelve provinces and borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, sharing maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The five largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht (forming the Randstad megalopolis) and Eindhoven (leading the Brabantse Stedenrij). Amsterdam is the country's capital, while The Hague holds the seat of the States General, Cabinet and Supreme Court. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and the world's largest outside Asia.'Netherlands' literally means 'lower countries', referring to its low land and flat geography, with only about 50% of its land exceeding 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) above sea level. Most of the areas below sea level are the result of land reclamation beginning in the 16th century, resulting in large areas known as polders that amount to nearly 17% of the country's territory. With a population of 17.25 million living within a total area of roughly 41,500 square kilometres (16,000 sq mi), of which the land area is 33,700 square kilometres (13,000 sq mi), the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Nevertheless, it is the world's second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products after the United States, owing to its fertile soil, mild climate, and intensive agriculture.The Netherlands was the third country in the world to have representative government, and has been administered as a parliamentary constitutional monarchy since 1848, with a unitary structure. A policy of pillarisation historically segregated society and institutions between Catholics, Calvinists and socialists, but Dutch society is today one of the most cosmopolitan in the world. The country has a long history of social tolerance and is generally regarded as a liberal country, having legalised abortion, prostitution, and euthanasia, while maintaining a progressive drug policy. The Netherlands abolished the death penalty in 1870, allowed women's suffrage in 1917, and became the world's first country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001.
The Netherlands is a founding member of the EU, Eurozone, G10, NATO, OECD, and WTO, as well as a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. It hosts several intergovernmental organizations and international courts, many of which are centered in The Hague, which is consequently dubbed 'the world's legal capital.' Its mixed-market advanced economy had the thirteenth-highest per capita income globally. One of the world's most prosperous countries, the Netherlands ranks among the highest in international indexes of press freedom, economic freedom, human development, and quality of life. Its strong performance is owed in large part to a generous welfare state that provides universal healthcare, public education and infrastructure, and a range of social benefits. It is also known for its polder model, the country's leading socioeconomic model based on consensus decision-making.
Marine technology moving towards certification
The prospects worldwide for marine technology are great, says Peter Scheijgrond from MET-support. Now it’s time to make more projects ‘bankable’.
MET-CERTIFIED aims to increase the adoption of insurable and therefore bankable marine energy projects through the development of internationally recognised standards and certification schemes and by testing and verifying technologies against IEC standards for marine energy convertors. The project brings together partners from 4 European countries in the 2SEAS region: Tidal Testing Center (NL) as project coordinator, the European Marine Energy Center (UK), Lloyd’s Register EMEA (UK), IFREMER (FR), Tocardo International (NL), Perpetuus Tidal Testing Centre (UK), NEC (NL), DNV GL (UK), Regional Development Agency West Flanders (BE), Ghent University (BE).
The MET-CERTIFIED project received funding from the Interreg 2 Seas programme 2014-2020, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Also the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the provinces of South and North Holland and the Belgian Province of West Flanders have offered financial support.
Why the EU needs a new vision - VPRO documentary
What is wrong with the EU and why does the EU need a new vision? Is the EU new vision to become a republic? Or what can we still expect from the EU?
The European Union is morally and culturally bankrupt, according to German philosopher and historian Ulrike Guérot. It’s time to put the EU project to its grave. Guérot envisions a European republic that consists of 50 regions around clusters of big cities, with a recognizable identity and shared economic and cultural interest. A decisive Europe that reinvents itself.
With her book Why Europe Must Become a Republic, she positions herself in a tradition of politically utopian thinkers. After having worked for almost twenty years on the building of the European Union, within various EU think tanks, it all suddenly became clear to her during the bailout of Cyprus in 2013: this Europe is bankrupt. Subsequently, one crisis followed the other: Greece, Brexit, refugees. With the capper being the election year, we’re facing in Germany, France and the Netherlands, while Brussels doesn’t have a clear answer to the increasing criticism by the growing populist parties.
Guérot compares the state of the current European Union with the WTC during the attacks on 9/11. We stand by and watch how everything collapses. If we do nothing, this European Union will not hold it position up. It's not the many crises in themselves that show a moral and cultural bankruptcy, but the way the European Union deals with it, according to Guérot. This European Union has become a union of money.
Guérot says our values must be rated differently: away from the failed nation states in which many people no longer recognize themselves nor feel represented. In the Middle Ages, Europe knew more than 50 different regions. These regions around town nodes should become the new provinces of the European Republic in which everyone is equal. The Europe of Citizens will then be born and the European Union's elite project will be buried.
How do Guérot's ideas about a European republic sound to politicians, bankers and to the Vatican? A trip across the Europe triangle, from Vienna to Berlin via Brussels, with Guérot.
Original Title: Eurotopia
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Full Speech by Thierry Baudet (FvD) after the first Exit Polls [English Subtitles]
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Thierry Baudet's right wing Eurosceptic 'Forum for Democracy' party became the biggest party in the Dutch provincial elections of March 20th 2019 (which also decide the Dutch senate). In a totally unexpected result, Forum for Democracy became the biggest party, being the first non-traditional and also first 'Populist' party to ever be the biggest in the senate. The senate will be installed later this year.
Appreciation of Dutch Support for African Human Rights Defenders
Feb 13th 2015 the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (in Kampala, Uganda), marked the inauguration of 3 years of support by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda for African human rights defenders. To mark and appreciate this support, EHAHRDP staff share with the Dutch people some of the impact their generosity will make, and we visit Ambassador H.E. Alphons Hennekens to ask about his views on the support.
Emilie Gordenker: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis combines a truly great collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings with the spectacular setting of a seventeenth-century city palace in the historic center of The Hague. This lecture will trace the history of the Mauritshuis's collection and the building that houses it, and will offer a behind-the-scenes view of the current renovation and expansion of the museum.
Location: The Frick Collection, New York, New York
Event Date: 10.23.13
Speaker: Emilie Gordenker
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Antwerp & Amazing - The Second Most Populous City Part IV
Antwerp & Amazing - The Second Most Populous City Part IV - Antwerp (Listeni/ˈæntwɜrp/, Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑn̪t̪.β̞ɛr.pə(n̪)] ( listen), French: Anvers [ɑ̃ˈvɛʁ(s)], Spanish: Amberes) is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province of Belgium. Antwerp's population is 510,610 (as of 1 January 2014),[2] making it the second most populous city in Belgium, after the capital Brussels. Antwerp's total area is 204.51 km2 (78.96 sq mi), giving a population density of 2,308 inhabitants per km². The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,449 km2 (559 sq mi) with a total of 1,190,769 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
According to folklore, notably celebrated by a statue in front of the town hall, the city got its name from a legend involving a mythical giant called Antigoon who lived near the Scheldt river. He exacted a toll from those crossing the river, and for those who refused, he severed one of their hands and threw it into the river. Eventually, the giant was slain by a young hero named Brabo, who cut off the giant's own hand and flung it into the river.
According to the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), the port of Antwerp was the seventeenth largest (by tonnage) port in the world in 2005 and second only to Rotterdam in Europe. Importantly it handles high volumes of economically attractive general and project cargo, as well as bulk cargo. Antwerp's docklands, with five oil refineries, are home to a massive concentration of petrochemical industries, second only to the petrochemical cluster in Houston, Texas. Electricity generation is also an important activity, with four nuclear power plants at Doel, a conventional power station in Kallo, as well as several smaller combined cycle plants.
Antwerp had an artistic reputation in the 17th century, based on its school of painting, which included Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, the two Teniers and many others.
Antwerp has a university and several colleges. The University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen) was established in 2003, following the merger of the RUCA, UFSIA and UIA institutes. Their roots go back to 1852. The University has approximately 13,000 registered students, making it the third-largest university in Flanders, as well as 1,800 foreign students. It has 7 faculties, and is located of four campus locations in the city centre and in the south of the city. Education is organized on bachelor, masters, and post-graduate level.
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Europe is dead, long live Europe - VPRO documentary - 2016
The European Union is morally and culturally bankrupt, according to German philosopher and historian Ulrike Guérot. It’s time to put the EU project to its grave. Guérot envisions a European republic that consists of 50 regions around clusters of big cities, with a recognizable identity and shared economic and cultural interest. A decisive Europe that reinvents itself.
With her book Why Europe Must Become a Republic, she positions herself in a tradition of politically utopian thinkers. After having worked for almost twenty years on the building of the European Union, within various EU think tanks, it all suddenly became clear to her during the bailout of Cyprus in 2013: this Europe is bankrupt. Subsequently, one crisis followed the other: Greece, Brexit, refugees. With the capper being the election year we’re facing in Germany, France and the Netherlands, while Brussels doesn’t have a clear answer to the increasing criticism by the growing populist parties.
Guérot compares the state of the current European Union with the WTC during the attacks on 9/11. We stand by and watch how everything collapses. If we do nothing, this European Union will not hold its position up.It's not the many crises in themselves that show a moral and cultural bankruptcy, but the way the European Union deals with it, according to Guérot. This European Union has become a union of money.
Guérot says our values must be rated differently: away from the failed nation states in which many people no longer recognize themselves nor feel represented. In the Middle Ages, Europe knew more than 50 different regions. These regions around town nodes should become the new provinces of the European Republic in which everyone is equal. The Europe of Citizens will then be born and the European Union's elite project will be buried.
How do Guérot's ideas about a European republic sound to politicians, bankers and to the Vatican? A trip across the Europe triangle, from Vienna to Berlin via Brussels, with Guérot.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2016.
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Original Title: Eurotopia (VPRO Backlight)
Directed by: Britta Hosman
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.