Zuiderpark in Rotterdam South is one of the largest urban parks in Rotterdam.

You'll find a series of forest, grass, playing fields and allotments. An ideal setting for a gentle stroll or a bike ride. Click here for a map showing the barbecue areas.

World Park South 
The park was created in 1952 as a park and not use as an ornamental park. There are also held various festivals over the years, as the Metropolis Festival and the South Park Days. The park was renovated a few years ago and has thus been a very different character. By renovating the South Park is lighter, more fun and more attractive for different people. In short, a world park on the South.

Zuiderpark Rotterdam is 215 hectares. That's about 430 football pitches. With more than two kilometers long promenade, a fantastic playground, a beach, wetland, forests, islands and plenty of water park invites you to stroll and enjoy. 

Flora and fauna 
Nature friendly banks and wadis. When the remodeling is greater variation made to the green. There are swales (ditches for rainwater harvesting), natural banks with marsh plants, cattails, reeds and grass groin, more flowering shrubs and trees standing in grass. Red clover, plantain, mugwort and tansy growing at various locations in the park. 

The new water system ensures cleaner water, so water plants as yellow iris, cattails and water lilies are a promising area for animals like salamanders, dragonflies and writer particles. 
There are many species of birds in the South Park. Wren predominates with 200 couples. Further feel birds as blackbirds, blue tits and coal are at home here. Also lives one of the most common summer birds, the warbler in the park. Besides hanging in various places bat boxes for the rugged pipistrelle. The common pipistrelle here is also pretty much present. Furthermore inhabit moles, rabbits and hedgehogs part of the parkland. In the smaller waters, the green frog, newt and find the common toad.