Rotterdam Skyline

Here's a photo I took of the Rotterdam skyline yesterday. The tallest building here is the tallest in Rotterdam, and in The Netherlands. It isn't very high by world standards, but they like to keep 'em low here. It's the Nationale Nederlanden building, an insurance company. Rotterdam is the home of Dutch "sky scrapers." The city center was wiped out during the war, which gave them the opportunity to build a new city, making Rotterdam into the largest port city in the world, until Singapore eclipsed them two years ago.

For many years Rotterdam had the tallest building in Europe, the "White House," built in 1897. It's still around, having survived the 1944 bombing. A charming building.