of the early twentieth century, the Wurstelprater, was destroyed in the last days of the Second World War but such was its significance to the city that the Ferris Wheel was restored in 1946, and featured [...] merry-go-rounds erected, and gingerbread bakers (Lebzelter) set up their stalls. It was the site of the World Exhibitions of 1873 and 1897. The symbol of the Prater is a 60 m diameter Ferris Wheel (Reisenrad)

Europe’s great mountain passes, and in 1998 became the first transport route to be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is a monument on a rocky slope near Semmering station to Karl Ritter von Ghega [...] visitors. The most imposing of the hotels is the Sudbahnhotel-Semmering on the slope of Kartnerhogel, 2 km north of Semmering station.

like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the Russian Empire. It was founded in 1909 on Seurasaari

existence in part to the English sea blockade during the First World War. This forced the German Kaiserreich to replace hitherto imported wares with domestically manufactured products. These even included [...] subsequently completely modernised in accordance with monument preservation standards – partly for the world exhibition in Hanover in 2000 - and traffic-calming measures were introduced. Nowadays Piesteritz

opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles, historic machinery and [...] cloths from other Italian and European cities as well as traditional costumes from all over the world illustrate the worldwide influence of the local textile industry. A special highlight is the continuously

1878 when it came under the rule of the Habsburgs, and subsequently belonged to Yugoslavia until the wars of the 1990s. The name ‘Mostar’ means bridge keepers, and there was a wooden bridge across the Neretva [...] re-opened in 2004. The bridge and the area of the old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower

voyage” in a historic train. And don’t miss the “Caves of the Steel Animals” which is the name of two World War II bomb shelters. Children take the mini-train to go around the site. The roundhouse of 1924 offers [...] locomotives given as loans from the European nations, thus adopting the role of ambassadors. The “World of Steam Locomotives” addresses a conglomeration of technology including a “Transparent Workshop for

location of the only factory that still makes the traditional Wensleydale cheese.Since the Second World War when cheesemakers were obliged to produce a government standard Cheddar-like cheese, it has been

of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the ship’s periscopes, its torpedo store, its galley, [...] a controlled atmosphere. The museum also displays X24, a 16 m long mini submarine of the Second World War, and an even smaller German mini-submarine of the same period, which had a crew of just one man

translated melodiously for the world market as “Saxon Lace”, “Plauen Lace” and “Dentelles de Saxe”. Embroidery had its heyday in the Belle Époque, the forty years before World War I, but there are still around [...] As early as 1810, commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly

of a military air base in Charlais Park, served as a workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is designated as [...] (1847-1905) and Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850-1935), and is reckoned the first of its kind in the world. Its metal doors were designed by Henri de Dion (1828-78) for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 [...] an historical monument, and was inscribed on the French tentative list for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002. After falling into disrepair it is now well-maintained. The restoration work

opened the first of them in Burg Altena in 1912. After serving in the German army during the First World War he founded the German national organisation of hostels in 1919, and became involved in the international

Skansen, was re-located to its present site around the old Fredriksberg School House after the Second World War. It consists of a collection of cottages, cabins and other rural buildings removed from their original [...] displayed in reconstructed interiors of rural dwellings, including some showing life during the Second World War. There are also reconstructions of shops from the 1920s and 30s, and a working smithy and a dairy

of Nuremburg. The collection was stored in an underground production facility during the Second World War, but returned to No 12 Carl-Zeiss-Platz in 1976-77. In 1988 the museum acquired the Zeiss workshop

sector and in 1917 founded the Compañía Siderúrgica del Mediterráneo, which after the Spanish Civil War became part of its competitor, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya. In 1971 Altos Hornos del Mediterráneo was [...] working-class neighbourhoods remain. Of the old factory, the General Workshop Warehouse, Blast Furnace No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial

and vegetables were cultivated, and the town became known as the ‘flower city’. During the Second World War there was a forced labour camp in the area whose inmates were forced to labour in the peat workings

grandson of the company founder, Joseph Opinel, assembled the Opinel pocket knife. During the First World War the production moved to a former tannery in Cognin near Chambéry, followed by the relocation to

people and material between the two locations. In the First World War, the tunnel was used for ammunition production, and in the Second World War, the employees found shelter during air raids. The AEG site

g machinery, numerous photographs, historical drawings as well as technical plans are presented on 2,500 square metres. Mementos and recorded memories of the former metalworkers tell of their hard work [...] from it. An 8-minute film presents the history and the role of iron and steel in building today's world.

The Valentin memorial preserves the remains of a concrete bunker from the Second World War for building submarines on the river Weser near Bremen. In just twenty months – from summer 1943 to spring 1945 [...] Atlantic convoys. Up to 10,000 civilian forced labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions