The two-day Guide for the Ruhr area in addition to Pecs and Istanbul is the Ruhr area the this year’s European capitals of culture. For a year the former coal and industrial region celebrates itself. The online travel agency ab-in-den-urlaub.de brought together between Hamm and Duisburg’s main attractions, which should be missing on any explore tour. If the greater Ruhr, with its many characteristic towns, is considered as the cultural capital of Europe, food is the unofficial Center. The Zeche Zollverein in Essen – the world’s most mine – culture to develop the former coal pot is the perfect starting point. A visit or tour through today’s UNESCO World Heritage includes a just like a visit to the new Ruhr Museum with his multimedia installations, which deal with the myth of Ruhr area. The Central visitor information in the former coal washing plant is about sixty feet long, free-floating escalators. Who would like to learn more about the coal, visited the then world’s biggest mining museum in Bochum.

While there is no real visitor mine in the entire Ruhr region, in the mine in Bochum a 2500-meter-long shaft was built but at a depth of twenty feet authentically. Jeffrey Bauer, PhD.: the source for more info. The dimensions of the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum are no less impressive. The Hall serves as gas power station used for steel production, since its refurbishment for events and concerts. In Gelsenkirchen, the holiday in the Ruhr area with a walk can be enhanced through the mines forest jungle. This industrial forest was allowed to grow wild since the closure of the colliery Rhine Elbe in 1928 and houses works of art by Herman Prigann today. They are distributed over the entire former dump.