{"id":180729,"date":"2025-08-14T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=180729"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:53","slug":"heel-de-wereld-is-jouw-vaderland-zo-wordt-rotterdam-jouw-thuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/08\/14\/heel-de-wereld-is-jouw-vaderland-zo-wordt-rotterdam-jouw-thuis\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the whole world your homeland? This is how Rotterdam becomes your home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLet me show you the city I’ve grown to love\u201d, sings Rotterdam’s Hermes House Band at the beginning of their famous hit De Allermooiste Rotstad<\/em> (The Most Beautiful Rotten City). Here’s a humble introduction to the most beautiful place in the Netherlands. So this city will be a little less unknown to you.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe whole world is my homeland\u201d, wrote Desiderius Erasmus (1466\u20131536). Or rather: \u2018quaevis terra patria\u2019 \u2013 the famous theologian and humanist actually wrote it in Latin. Of course he is the namesake of the Erasmusbrug, Erasmus University, Erasmus MC, Erasmus Magazine, Eetcaf\u00e9 Erasmus, and many other renowned places. He also sometimes called himself Erasmus Roterodamus, to make clear he came from Rotterdam. Will you be studying in Rotterdam from now on? Then you too are a Roterodamus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t

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