way, combining various functions, we were awarded in 2021 with the prestigious title of Best of the World by National Geogrpahic Traveler in the Sustainable Development category. This is a source of great [...] Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association itself has over 400 members. The most important sites on the ERIH route

colliery , the district's only World Heritage Site, doesn't really need much more to be said about it, considering its reputation as the ‘most beautiful colliery in the world’ and the flagship of an industrial [...] transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point

ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis. A number of five-minute project [...] for Wales, presented previous efforts to implement the regional route "Valleys that changed the World". The potential of ERIH in supporting its members was the subject of the lecture "Industrial heritage [...] Heritage Park in Rhondda (Darren Macey, Managing Director). The book "Coal, Beer and Chartism: The World of Zephaniah and Joan Williams" was the subject of another five-minute lecture, given by Les James

region, is located at the transition of the Pyrenees into the Cantabrian Mountains and has more than 2.2 million inhabitants. Its prosperity owes much to industrialisation, which began in the 1840s with iron [...] d by the Bilbao Maritime Museum and – further downstream in Getxo – by the Puente Colgante , the world's first transporter bridge. Getxo is also home to the mansions of wealthy tycoons, whose history is

previously undetected zinc deposits. Will this be the beginning of a new mining chapter? ERIH article in IK 2.23 (German): "Ein sprödes Metall verändert die Welt. Standorte der Zinkindustrie in Europa" (pdf)

Special highlights this year include giant 3D mappings, a skywalk tour, a light show featuring works by world-famous artists such as Gustav Klimt and Hundertwasser, and various music acts set against a spectacular

in Italy, which - despite recession and mass dismissals - remained in business after the Second World War, producing mainly sugar, locomotives and dockside cranes. Today, the 26-hectare industrial site

Rathenau established the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) in 1887. After the Second World War, the same neighbourhood became the largest inner-city industrial district in the GDR. In 2009, the

Nuremberg Declaration on German Industrial Heritage, and one year later, at ERIH Anchor Point Zollverein World Heritage Site , they passed a resolution to formally establish the federal association, which was [...] Courtesy LWL / Philipp Harms From left to right: Thies Schröder (Managing Director of Ferropolis Ltd., 2nd Chairman), Constanze Roth (INNOVENT e.V. / Head of the Vogtland Pioneers Alliance, Member), Prof. [...] President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member), Jürgen K. Enninger (Head of Culture Dept., World Heritage and Sport, City of Augsburg, Member).

Before World War I, the "Elektropolis Berlin" was considered emblematic of a modern, hyper-connected city. After World War II, the long-term "deep sleep" of many industries helped preserve the often iconic