Bike route along street art in Dordrecht

Remco van Hoek

The tree stands in front of the wall and the sun shines on its beautiful leaves. The shadows of the tree turn into seven colors on the wall. These colors symbolize the seven-year life cycle.

Cross Crayenstein Street and follow bike path to the right. Further on, cross again and then follow bike path as before.  

To admire the more than 20-meter-high mural in The Water Tower, you don't have to be a hotel or restaurant guest. It is a municipal monument with a viewing balcony on the 7th floor accessible to everyone. Here you can see the impact water has had on the formation of Dordrecht. The water flows from top to bottom (the water tower has more than 7 floors).
On 3 floors there is a map of the island from a period from the past to the present. The water flows along it and through it like a root system, part of the cycle, continuing to the next period.

Return to intersection and turn left onto Dubbelsteynlaan-Oost, follow and after parking Damplein turn left. On Damplein you will find restaurants, stores and an ice cream parlor.

Inge Modderkolk

The past with a black and white painting of Dubbelsteynlaan West around 1903 showing a lorrenboer. This is someone who bought up old clothes and resold them to make paper or polishing cotton. In the foreground the future in color with the children Stan (age 3) and Estella (age 7) from Dubbeldam with great-grandparents in De Gravenhorst.

Follow Dubbelsteynlaan-West to T-junction and turn right into bike path Dordwijklaan 1.

After the intersection you will see a bicycle tunnel, look around. The route does not go into the tunnel, but turn left.

The walls of this bike tunnel have been taken in hand by various graffity artists and transformed into a colorful fantasy world.

Follow bike path, keep bike signs 's Gravendeel, cross road, bike path Oostzijde Rondweg, 3rd path left, turn right through tunnel, stop at first traffic lights. Across the road you will see the next work of art.

Dordrechts Museum is one of twenty museums participating in the nationwide street art project Museum Murals and asked artist Floor Milou Smit to create the design for the mural.
Smit chose letter boards from the permanent collection of the Dordrecht Museum as the inspiration for the mural in order to create her own contemporary tribute to everyday and personal objects Residents were therefore invited to contribute their valuable everyday objects so that they could be given a place in the mural of their flat. Thus, they are part of the colorful work of art that brightens up the neighborhood.

Cross over to Talmaweg then 2nd left onto Groen van Prinstererweg, turn right into Savorin Lohmanweg.

Juno and Anouk Brand

Former city poet Juno wrote this poem as part of a series on three senses: seeing, feeling and tasting. The sense of "seeing" is represented here with the line of poetry, "Nowhere looks like here, shall we share everything together? The longer you keep looking, the more you will care.' The graffiti on the shutters was done by street art artist Anouk Brand, almost graduated from the Grafisch Lyceum in Rotterdam.

Ricardo Zwol

The idea of the deer and trees came from Dordrecht high school student Iris Kadijk (2004) who, as a farmer's daughter, has De Biesbosch as her backyard, often spots deer and loves to draw. Barendrecht artist Ricardo van Zwol (1975) worked out the idea with a prominent role for boy across the street Luka Mrvos (2011) in the design. Van Zwol: "Painting portraits, nature and sunsets are really my thing. Working with layers, circles and staggered lines give my murals movement and layering."

Follow road, turn right onto Zuidendijk, at t-junction (white blocks) turn left, turn right and cross road, turn left again on top of Zuidendijk continue cycling. Turn right onto Frans Lebretlaan, left onto Viottakade, follow traffic circle 3/4, in front of gas station turn right, cycle out Weeskinderdijk, cross road 2x and turn right following bike path along river.

In the summer of 2020, Dordrecht hosted the international graffiti festival Meeting of Styles. Five pillars of the Zwijndrecht bridge were tackled. But also the skate park a little further away is a colorful sight.

Turn right onto Korte Parralelweg, then further left onto Koninginnestraat.

Halfway down Queen Street you will find a Stedin object. Danny Rumbl's style is very recognizable. This work is the first in his series of murals on the Stedin objects.

Not a painting but a wall collage. A public work by many people from Dordrecht and it celebrates and commemorates freedom. Inspiration for the artwork is a by-flute poem. During the celebration of the birth of the Netherlands, visitors to the National Museum of Education wrote a through-listening poem on the theme of freedom. The words from this poem inspired this wall collage.