Kralingen
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Kralingen is a former village in the Dutch province of South Holland, now a neighbourhood of Rotterdam. It is located about 3 kilometres east of the city centre, in the borough Kralingen-Crooswijk.
Kralingen was a separate municipality until 1895, when it merged with Rotterdam.[1] Previously, the high society of the growing city in the 19th century had their pleasure gardens and villas erected here.
It is home to the Kralingse Plas, a large surface water used for recreation, and the Kralingse Bos, a forest of 2 square kilometres that welcomed 100,000 visitors for the music festival in 1970 which was the "European answer to Woodstock".
When Rotterdam was bombed on 14 May 1940, a large portion of Kralingen went up in flames as well.
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