Street art · Rotterdam

Spelende beertjes

By Anne Grimdalen

Spelende beertjes by Anne Grimdalen, Rotterdam
Photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0

This bronze of tumbling bear cubs, 'Spelende beertjes' (Playing Bears), has quietly anchored Rotterdam's Lijnbaan since the 1950s — Europe's first pedestrian shopping street, built as a postwar model for car-free urban life.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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