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New Regional Route in Poland connected to ERIH network
The Silesian Voivodeship is another address on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 now open!
The Ruhr is the European Capital of Culture 2010.
Reusing Industrial Heritage TICCIH Conference - Call for Papers open until 16th November
TICCIH is having it´s first joint meeting with ICOHTEC (The International Committee for the History...
Welcome
to the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the tourism information network of industrial heritage in Europe.
Currently we present more than 850 sites in 32 European countries. Among these sites there are 72 Anchor Points which build the virtual ERIH main route. On thirteen Regional Routes you can discover the industrial history of these landscapes in detail. All sites relate to ten European Theme Routes which show the diversity of European industrial history and their common roots.
Anchor Point of the Day
Severn Valley Railway | Kidderminster
This journey into the industrial past is a good 25 km long and leads through the heart of...
Do you know...
where the first cast-iron bridge in the world is situated?
In Ironbridge, a small town in the English county of Shropshire in the Severn Valley. The eponymous 30 meter long iron bridge over the river was built in 1779 and was the first ever bridge to be made of iron. Hence the name of the town and also the gorge spanned by the bridge. Ironbridge is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage …
