A recent theme for me but I think it will develop over time and therefore deserves a full page.
For those who like these atmospheres, there is a European route of industrial culture, which allows you to discover many sites of our industrial history.
Rotterdam, sky scrappers, pop architecture and industrial culture
Too often neglected by tourists in favour of Amsterdam of course but also other destinations such as The Hague, Utrecht … Rotterdam is worth a stop…
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Harbours of Grece
To finish this Greek trilogy that started in Athens, some images of villages by the water, out of season. To start, south of Athens, one of…
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Lusitania, past and present of a coal mining region
There are many coal, or more precisely lignite, producing regions in Germany and one of its regions lies between Brandenburg and Saxony, both regions of the…
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When electricity was at its high in Berlin: AEG and Osram
The more I visit the city, the more I discover industrial buildings built to the glory of electricity, between the end of the 19th and the…
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Schöneweide – a center of the industrial revolution in Berlin
I recently returned to the Schöneweide district, which at the turn of the last century was the largest industrial centre in Berlin. A century of industrial…
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Typical of the DDR: Eisenhüttenstad
More than thirty years after the reunification, a large part of the architectural heritage of the GDR has disappeared, has been destroyed or completely rebuilt ……
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Industrial nostalgia
There are many derelict industrial sites in former East German Länder, this is not the case with this one as it is open to visitors and…
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Elektropolis Berlin
I covered in a previous blog two cities where the industrial revolution took place early and left many traces: Liverpool and Manchester. https://wherever-it-is.com/2021/06/18/liverpool-or-manchester/ The industrial revolution…
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Liverpool or Manchester?
This could well be a question for football fans, with four Premier League clubs in the two cities, fans are well catered for. So, are you…
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