almost all its sites taking part, including the Anchor Points "Guido" Coal Mine and Queen Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site in Tarnowskie Góry and the Brewery Museum in Żywiec

from 1 to 11 September. A tour of the "Christine" slate mine in Willingen, for example, takes visitors into the underground history of regional mining, while they learn a lot about the history and technology

industry. Testimony to this is provided by the Irugurutzeta furnaces in Irun as well as the Mutiloa mining area in the municipality of Ormaiztegi, with its iron ores supplying English and French foundries

"Even though the mine officially ceased operations in 1983," she stated, "mining has shaped the region and its people for many generations. Fortuna Mine was literally a lucky thing for the whole region [...] sponsoring association, Geowelt Fortuna e. V., "whose commitment and passion made Fortuna Mine what it is today." The mine's outstanding value for industrial heritage is enhanced by its role as a geological [...] National GEOPARK Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus. Highlights of the site such as the ride in the pit cage, the mine train and numerous original machines provide visitors and students with exciting impressions and

played by Freiberg, a major mining centre in the region and the first free mining town in Germany following early traces of silver in 1168. It is also home to the Bergakademie (Mining Academy), founded in 1765 [...] world's oldest mining institute still in existence and the place where, for example, the elements indium and germanium were discovered in the 19th century. The Freiberg Municipal and Mining Museum reveals [...] galleries underground. The "Stary Martin" (Old Martin) mine adit in Czech Krupka owns the longest lode of tin ore in Central Europe, and the Altenberg Mining Museum illustrates the background of a huge crater

an integral part of the experience. In Malliß, for example, visitors follow the traces of lignite mining along the canals to the Marien-Stollen. In Neumünster, they walk along the course of the river Schwale

direct consequence of that industrialization process. Thus, industrial landscapes, whether urban, mining, port, etc., have themselves become resources with great cultural and tourist potential. Landscapes

Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the Snowdon massif [...] (1780-1914). The serial property comprises six components each encompassing relict quarries and mines, archaeological sites related to slate industrial processing, historical settlements, both living [...] further industrial heritage sites and monuments: the Cordouan Lighthouse in France, the Roșia Montană Mining Landscape in Romania, and the Trans-Iranian Railway . By contrast, Liverpool, one of England's most

Monuments, including the ERIH Anchor Points "Guido" Coal Mine and Queen Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Brewery Museum in Zywiec and the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry. Other ERIH sites involved are the [...] Workers' Settlement in Katowice, the Bread and School Museum in Radzionków and the Ignacy Historical Mine in Rybnik. All visitors are invited to join in discovering the secrets of the world of technology:

right in the heart of the Bizkaia mining zone and dating back to the 16th century, with the Dolomite Museum in Karrantza featuring an exhibition on dolomite mining as of the 1950s. There are two ERIH [...] inhabitants. Its prosperity owes much to industrialisation, which began in the 1840s with iron ore mining in the province of Bizkaia, thus transforming this sub-region into a European centre of heavy industry

Following its extensive expansion and conversion in 1912-15, it was the first fully electrified mine in the Ostrava mining district. This was thanks to a brand new engine room, equipped with two Siemens-Schuckert [...] slate mine is one of the few remaining examples of the regional slate industry that flourished around 1900. Its importance is reflected in the fact that there are seven other disused slate mines in the [...] belonged at the time - the blast furnaces of Dolni Vitkovice were fed with coke. The nearby Michal mine in Ostrava-Michálkovice, another ERIH Anchor Point, can also boast a pioneering achievement: Following

ore mining in Hesse. Today, the former Fortuna red ironstone mine is Hesse's first ERIH Anchor Point. Highlights such as the rope ride in the pit cage to a depth of 150 metres, the ride in the mine train [...] railway facilities into museums. The Fortuna visitor mine in the woodlands north of Solms-Oberbiel near Wetzlar, Germany, was the penultimate iron ore mine in Germany to cease operations. This was in 1983 [...] includes a geologist for the first time this year. He stands for the additional role of the visitor mine as a geo-information centre in the National GEOPARK Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus. Monfalcone, Italy's n

Friends of Hafod Morfa Copperworks) Blaenau Gwent, a county between Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenavon with mining remains, quarries and an ironworks (Alyson Tippings, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, and Janet

has joined the ranks of ERIH World Heritage Sites such as Völklingen Ironworks and the Zollverein Mine and Coking Plant." ERIH President Prof. Meinrad Grewenig, also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the

a "sensitive city". Environmental regeneration is certainly one of the features of the "Open Your Mine" project presented by Commissioner Elisabetta Castelli of the Geomining Park of Sardinia . At the [...] social regeneration, implemented through initiatives aimed at bringing communities closer to their mines. Of no less interest were the experiences of regeneration projects carried out through the creation

Orte im Sinne einer "gefühlten Stadt" nachzuerzählen. Eines der Merkmale des Projekts "Open Your Mine", das die Vertreterin des Geomineral-, Geschichts- und Umweltparks Sardinien , Elisabetta Castelli

"lost places": guests are allowed to enter otherwise forbidden areas and locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen also opens its doors for night-time explorers. Music attractions

"Conservation and Adaptive Reuse", are ERIH sites: Ignacy Historic Mine in Rybnik, Poland : Decay and demolition of one of the oldest mines in the country after more than 200 years of operation? That was

panoramic view from the 40-metre coal bunker is one of the highlights of a visit. The ERIH member Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park has also undergone profound changes: one of the Ruhr region's most productive

region in 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 [...] began its unprecedented transformation into what is now one of the key monuments of large-scale coal mining.