Fiction Comes to Life...

Spijkenisse also caught our attention when we learned about the euro banknote bridges, which we wanted to investigate as a potential feature for a future hash trail. The bridges shown on the various euro denominations are actually all fictional. In 2014, a Dutch designer decided to make the imaginary bridges become a reality in his home town of Spijkenisse. 

The first bridge that we encountered was the €200 bill, depicting the age of iron and glass.

Rather than building seven bridges for the seven denominations, six bridges were built with this one depicting two different banknotes. Representing the €5 bill, this side used classical architecture...

…and this side used gothic architecture for the €20 bill. 

This bridge used baroque and rococo design for the €100 bill. If you look closely, you might see some young buys playing underneath it.

Those three bridges representing four bills were on one side of a housing development...

…while the rest were on the opposite side of the large neighborhood.

The bridge for the €10 used Romanesque achitecture...

…whereas the €50 used renaissance design elements.

Lastly, the €500, which I previously didn’t even knew existed, used modern 20th century architecture. 

On our way back to the metro station, we spotted this cute wall of dogs on the backside of a pet store.

Clearly these other dogs were better trained to look straight at the camera. 

Here’s our last view of the euro note bridges from the metro. 

We covered a lot of ground on our fun day out.