Dive into the heart of Europe's industrial revolution with a visit to its iron and steel heritage sites. From monumental blast furnaces to historic forges, explore the engineering feats that fueled progress.
The monastic ruins of Tintern Abbey rest on the banks of the Wye in Wales. Like the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in Belgium, Tintern Abbey was populated by monks of the Cistercian Order.
With the dynamiting of the two blast furnaces of the Usine de Senelle, the last witnesses of the steel basin in Longwy, France, disappeared in the summer of 1991. Or almost.
Only a dozen pylons remain of the cable car between the iron mine in Öttingen, France and the blast furnaces of Terres Rouges in Differdange, Luxembourg.
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On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall—a symbol of Cold War division and oppression—was breached, and Berliners poured through the newly opened checkpoints in an emotional wave of unity and celebration. Now, thirty-five years later, the wall no longer divides East from West, but its remnants and the scars it left on Berlin are still visible, telling the story of a city split in two for nearly three decades.
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