Industrial Heritage

In addition to the sun, sea and beach, the Italian coastal town of Amalfi also has industrial ruins in store.

The blockbuster Dunkirk tells the story of the tumultuous flight of more than 300,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers from Dunkirk at the start of the Second World War.

The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.

Near the centre of Sorrento, Italy, lies the Vallone dei Mulini, an overgrown valley full of the ruins of old factories.

The iron headframe above the Pluto-Wilhelm mine in the German Ruhr area immediately evokes the Zollverein headframe in Essen, which has been declared a World Heritage Site. This counterpart is threatened with demolition.

In the 1950s, a cement factory opened in the heart of the Pyrenees. The quarry was a stone's throw away, while the coal came from the nearby mines of Malpàs. What could go wrong?

Years of coal mining in Zeche Hugo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, have left behind a one-hundred-and-fifteen-meter-high slag heap, the Halde Rungenberg.

A 240-meter-long station building was the highlight of a railway line that extended from the French Pau to Jaca, Spain.

Wales' largest optical telescope has been on Swansea's coastline since the 1990s. But when the municipality increased the rent, the Swansea Astronomical Society cut and ran.