This is Dordrecht’s least tangible but perhaps most important monument. It is built entirely of light, air, and water. Here, you experience the city as if it were on an island. In a grand gesture, the rivers Merwede, Noord, and Oude Maas converge at the
Drierivierenpunt.
Poets, writers, and painters came to this spot specifically to lose themselves in the exhilaration of the sweeping view. They beheld a spectacle of unadulterated nature, bathed in the famous Dutch light.
Foreign artists sought out the seventeenth-century city depicted by the famous painter Aelbert Cuyp against this dreamlike backdrop.
