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Dordrecht, Netherlands Walking tour [4K].

Dordrecht, Netherlands Walking tour 4K. September 24, 2022. Dordrecht is located in the southeastern part of the province of South Holland, about 20 km southeast of Rotterdam. The city occupies the entire area of the island of the same name, which was formed in its modern form as a result of the flood of St. Elizabeth in 1421. Dordrecht received city privileges in 1220. Dordrecht is considered the oldest city in Holland. Located at the crossroads of water trade routes, Dordrecht remained the most important and most influential city in Holland until the 16th century. In 1572 it became one of the first cities in the Netherlands to rebel against Spanish rule, and it was here that the Free Assembly of the United Provinces met for the first time. Starting from the 17th century, Dordrecht began to lose its leading positions in the Dutch economy and politics, yielding them to its northern neighbors, but remained an important shipbuilding and commercial center of the country. In the historical center of Dordrecht, which was almost not destroyed during the Second World War, many buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved. The city is crossed by numerous canals, the main one of which runs along the central shopping street of Dordrecht - Vorstraat. In the city center, at the intersection of Worstraat and Wiesstraat, a monument was erected to the brothers Jan and Cornelis de Witt, Republican politicians who were killed by the Orangists in The Hague in 1672. The Worstraat ends with the gates of the former city outpost of Grotshofdsport, built in 1618. Of the 12 fortress gates of Dordrecht, only two have survived - the second, Katreineport, was built in 1652. Next to the New Port is the Gothic Grote Kerk, built in the 14th century and remaining one of the largest churches in the Netherlands. There are a number of museums in the city, including the Dordrecht Museum, whose collection contains paintings by Dutch artists, mainly from the 17th century and later, including works by such authors as Jacob and Albert Cuyp, Jan van Goyen, Adam Willaerts, Ari Scheffer, Josef Israels and G. H. Breitner.