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Sparta, being one of the three clubs to have a somewhat regular foothold in the Dutch Eredivisie, find their origin in the neighbourhood of Spangen, and have their stadium there to this day. Sparta has been in the Eredivisie since 2020, though they've held a position in the Eredeivisie for all but ten years between 1957 and 2021. The club's stadium, nicknamed "Het Kasteel" (The Castle) gets its name from the iconic entrance on the side of the Spartastraat, which resembles a castle.
The Sparta Stadion, nicknamed Het Kasteel, is a football stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is the home ground of Sparta Rotterdam. It has a capacity of 11,026.
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Event venue hosting music, theatre, stand-up comedy, art and film.
Oude- of Pelgrimvaarderskerk
Founded in 1417 as a chapel. The 'Old Church' has been a Protestant church since 1574, and thanks its main name to the Pilgrim Fathers, English settlers banished to Leiden. Many of them stayed there, but some chose to embark for the new world on the Mayflower, establishing the Plymouth Colony. Before embarking for the new world, they had their last sermon in this church.
Dutch Pinball Museum
This monumental building was built in 1825 and had since undergone a major restoration. It is a former grain warehouse that was repurposed in 1861 as a distillery. It housed a dependency of the Rotterdam Museum from 1975 to 2012. It nowadays houses the Dutch Pinball Museum.
This 1870 sandstone statue is, and always has been controversial. It commemorates Piet Heyn, a commandant of the Dutch West India Company, eventually working his way up to lieutenant-admiral of Holland and West-Frisia, housed in Hoorn. In 1628, during the Dutch war against Spanish overlordship, Heyn managed to capture the Spanish silver fleet, taking a massive sum of money from the Spanish treasury into that of the Dutch Republic. The statue and Heyn as a person are controversial since this money has subsequently partially been invested in the slave trade. Though Heyn himself would not have had a decisive say in this matter, the statue has been covered with slurs against the Dutch colonial past in recent times.
The cathedral of Rotterdam (Roman Catholic) is a somewhat heavy neo romanesque creation from 1907. The interior is quite well proportioned and atmospheric. Sunday mass is at 11:00 (sometimes with a good choir). Besides assisting at the normally well attended mass you can walk in before or after to have a look inside.
De Distilleerketel ('the Distillers' Kettle) was rebuilt in 1986 after the original mill was destroyed in World War II. The original mill from 1727 was meant for grinding malt for the numerous distilleries in Delfshaven. Now it works as a mill for grinding wheat on a commercial basis.