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 everything.
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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A collapsed and flooded complex of mining galleries stretches between 600 and 800 metres below the cyclocross World Cup 2025 course in the northern French town of Liévin.
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