Live: colorful street parade through inner Rotterdam

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The street parade with more than 2500 exotic dancers and twenty parade cars must make a detour as the Coolsingel will be redecorated. The route of the country's largest Caribbean street party starts on the Schiedamsedijk and leads among other things along the Nieuwe Binnenweg, the Weena, the Karel Doormanstraat. At 3 pm, the head of the parade arrives at the Hofplein. For visitors who still want to take dance classes to free their hips, this afternoon at 14:00 You can go to Central Station for a small workshop.

Today, a temperature of 23 degrees is expected. However, tropical music and dance will certainly swing to raise sensation temperatures in Rotterdam