i'm in dortmund's the city in germany's ruhr region isn't necessarily known for its beauty but it is for many other things. for me shopping in the city center football photos you know before him for those yeah my long hard work stealing co and i think a vocalist and a beer or two. ok sounds like a plan but first let's take a little sightseeing tour of. austin and best and how big are dortmund central shopping streets it's been an important

commercial route ever since the middle ages. dark one is also very green at least in the summer that is here and best park you'll find one of the city's most famous landmarks the t.v. tower nicknamed floria. and then there's lake phoenix an artificial body of water on the grounds of a former steel plant. just like many other cities in the rural area dortmund was once an important center for the coal and steel industries at second claim to fame was football and while most of the industry has fallen victim to structural changes football is still a source of pride and joy in the region in this edition i want to find out how all . all of this month past and present shapes the city to this day and there's much

more on the show of course. we'll check out extra say tonight dedicated to industrial culture in the region. globe trotters steve heinous discovers the pharaoh islands between norway and iceland. and as always we'll have a viewer video of this time it takes is around does take a stamp. boardman's phoenix lake is an exclusive residential area and a popular place to stroll. but there are still remnants of the area's industrial past to be found the lake was created only on the eastern part of the former steel plant the old blast furnace was conserved in phoenix west as a memorial to the city's industrial past. and

now i'm eating highgate now he she gives regular guided tours through the complex so. this one's mine. the best part of the tour it takes you way up in the air thirty meters above ground to be exact and the view is amazing. phoenix western iron ore into raw iron from here it was transported to phoenix east of where the lake stands today there's the unrefined iron was processed further to produce steel. sawdust of so that's a steel works and here we have an overview the like has here and between them there was a railway connection that's now a great cycling and walking trail. standing in the blast furnace complex.

the plant was in operation until nine hundred ninety eight that's what i know for the times were very different back then and so was the air. the money i'm new to dog month you only hung up your washing on the wrong day once. once we reach the plant itself we're off to the engine room. from here and engineers steered the wagons that would take the materials forty metres up and into the blast furnace. so you didn't have to on the next platform back when the facility was active the air here was very unhealthy. people only came here with industrial style breathing apparatus. out some good it. and the region's golden age up to

nine thousand people worked in phoenix east and west now the only people here are tourists like us. there are many industrial plants that were repurposed following the structural transformation of their region sledge towers were turned into audio installations railroads into bike lanes but the hand that coking plant and dortmund was maintained as a monument to the city's industrial heritage just like phoenix with let's take a look. at steel works like phoenix westmead coke as a fuel for the blast furnace is that smelt. coke is derived from cone until nine hundred ninety two five thousand tons of the fuel were produced every day in the hundreds of coking plant. those days are over. because quite sort of work the

ovens until the plant closed now he visitors through the old facility. there's. it was backbreaking work then there was that and summer when it was already hot outside there was radiated heat on the oven roof temperatures on it were never under sixty degrees celcius. of the cocaine is the machine home. and. it's hard they work here i just find it impressive that they're trying to maintain it. is being maintained but not polished into a high gloss tourist destination it shows what happens to an industrial complex when left to itself now nature is slowly reclaiming doesn't.

like a big now shows me to the door to another symbol of the city. this building structural change in the region it's been turned from an industrial hobby into a popular site for the service and creative sectors in what used to be the union brewery rather than beer you'll now find exhibits a museum and art project. of this i mean. this is basically my favorite exhibition even though i say that almost every floor . but the data in particular represents what makes this museum special here you can not only look at modern os you can create a true self. or in this exhibit that means taking your own pictures. the

state symbolizes the modern the region like no other institution what led to the structural change. never saw them into told us today what to do with the fact that globalization made it cheaper to buy coal abroad than to mine it here so in the one nine hundred seventy s. the nation more and more was but was abroad simply because it was better value for money. was i thought going to go and you know what jobs here were lost in the late one nine hundred seventy s. dartmouth has lost eighty five thousand jobs lost in the cumber how come that changed because at some point there were new perspectives and projects that would as with figures as i mentioned i think what's important was that there were people who can simply think a step further than we can imagine that it ultimately started with car guns and the i.b.m. shop park in the one nine hundred ninety s. how did that he had the idea that it wasn't about each town doing its own thing but about the entire region working together since a very important signal the dog commanders were the first to be hit hard by the

crisis and authorities here had to think about how to master it and they're clear they have yet the time of the mission and they did how did that impact tourism in the region. overnight stays is rising constantly and it's not just because dogman has a very successful football team it's also being recommended as a destination for short breaks to people in germany. and there are increasing numbers of visitors from abroad who are fascinated by the way a modern technology oriented city can link to its industrial past that's media industry and you can plunge into history and at the same time enjoy the green detract of sitting around it you know and a proxy for stuff. thanks for the tour in the dark that's my pleasure the more areas biggest cultural event is the extra shift and night dedicated to the celebration of industrial culture for one day two thousand artists take over forty

five being used in twenty one cities one of them of course and the most unimaginable locations are turning to stay just for music for theater and even for fire shows check it out. we make it easy going starting duesberg north landscape park taking two students historic train over the twosome called compound. the board later we're going to there's something like this there as well. we want to revisit the tone of i'm coal mine we really wanted to see the light show that. we're going to the old zinc factory and. the henry iron works in putting in an opera singer tina zick is trying to catch a man. or woman

a little something really. good we've got to. think is this woman worried that her husband will succumb. ok you can take care of himself i'm not worried about michigan and. it's starting to grow dark and the extra shift festival begins to show its limit as side. outside the iron works are dancing down in the basement there's thrills and chills but. it's a peace please don't kill me stab at the nameless one. and is don't worry i won't so but soon as your body can no longer take the pain you'll die on your own. the hands a coking plant is also of and you. must

future lots of fun lots of us it is nice guy it's it's grace a grace of and. then there's a fire show accompanied by a string quartet. the extra night of industrial culture takes place every june and it always gets the entire rural region rocking. now i want to find out a bit about dortmund's other claim to fame football. since october of twenty fifteen it's been home to the german football museum a kind of one stop shop for football fans young and old.

it's a place that documents the nation's sporting past by taking a look back at some of the most glorious moments and. werman football history like the world cup win if nine hundred fifty four. different sections of the exhibit are dedicated to club and women's football. at its heart in the trophy room you'll find many of the sport's most coveted awards including of course germany's world cups. there are a total of one thousand six hundred exhibits the biggest by far is the bust that carted around germany's two thousand and fourteen world champion team. and now let's get out of here because globe trotters steve amish is waiting for us

on the faro islands that's an archipelago about halfway between iceland and norway popular mostly among hikers and bird watchers no wonder really because the landscape is truly impressed. with. the faroe islands. so i want to show you the silence by hiking on the water bootsy collins and what would be the islands from above from a helicopter are you ready then put your went green jackets and we're ready to go.

now we're in the capital and here we are staying local it's staying in a little brown with. doctors. oh . yes you. are about to go kayaking. with hundreds who is preparing supper and i guess some prices you. and. where are. wrong it's a lot of fun like along this coast here especially because we don't have strong winds and currents so it's very relaxing to slide along the coast and see this rocks here and the landscape around little villages over there freaking nice.

if you have seen one image of the faroe islands and it's probably this this waterfall here. it's called them all up. but is better known for the village which is up there which is called. so this is a very very picturesque spots at least here on the boat because we want to see how things today are going to be fixed starting from seven. and it looks promising weather so far. if. he. believes even when he's insulated think he'll have it here.

if he. seemed a fair islands from the ground is pretty nice but it's even nicer when you get up into the air so i'm not taking a look up the flight. and that's it from the fair islands see you soon. and dortmund one football club is king the black and yellow dortmund it was founded in this building in one thousand nine hundred nine so this has become a favorite destination for dortmund fans making pilgrimages from around the country . but listed buildings in the area make it a worthwhile visit even for people who don't like the beautiful game. full disclosure i'm

a huge fan of byron munich dortmund's biggest rival so kind of moving behind enemy lines here and i'm starting to realize that no matter how hard i try there's no getting around this team in the city. one good example the holy trinity church just a stone's throw from the famous. here people don't just come to praise the lord but also they are teens. of course poses plots and the holy trinity church are the only places of worship for dortmund fans in town their actual cathedral is the team's stadium signaling it do not park. seek knowledge do not park is the biggest stadium in germany. for one football cock

. block and a time german champions as well as european. winners and have taken the laurels in both the champions league and intercontinental cup. their fans in the city are extremely dedicated. when there's no match taking place the stadium is open for guided tours. we now have room for more than eighty thousand people but most in the stand on the south terrace there are just under twenty five thousand places they are almost off for season ticket holders it's practically always sold out. the. door natives are hard fish lives and works for both aussie adornment she's both a fan and a stadium guy and she leads visitors through the stadium system of tunnels and even

into the holiest of holies the locker room. in the heart of the stadium the past comes to life again in the coliseum the team's museum it houses historical exhibits pictures and even a replica of a pub because the football club was actually born at a regular table there. may not go to men founded back then i don't think they could have imagined what they were founding and what it would be a hundred years later it's very special what. was on. the campus had great success and a few small scandals at one training camp for instance blair's pact a bra into a teammate suitcase that set off a crisis with his wife back home. and that muslims in the end figured out they had to help get him out of trouble so they held the first and only team meeting to date with

a woman in attendance so. that. football stories from the region aren't just for the horse or dog fans. where there is football you can be certain beer isn't far away dortmund has a long brewing tradition i'm headed to the popular bar to meet up with a beer summit marcus malva he and his colleagues have a mission to teach stuart when there is more about the quality and delights of their favorite beverage to reach that goal they offer brewing seminars and beer tasting. shows and three great specialty beers here we'll start with a dortmund you believe here it's a very new beer that's just come out for the fiftieth anniversary of the daughter

wonder you are landmark what. i'm going to pour it in quite carefully for its melon that has a sweet bread a note like brioche but you'll also smell the hops is. just definitely. beer like this practically demands a savory snack marcus recommends the homemade potato bread and sour cream the perfect pairing for this very mild brew. next up an herbal beer from belgium the so-called good it's triple ferment and greedy strong and first some reason smells like apple juice but. it's really sparkly isn't it will never tasted anything like it. does this is a beer that's great to serve as an aperitif finish on paying glass to surprise

people. on to the third one marcus serves it with onion chutney it's from dortmund and called divots coffee buffet and that's been the lead. for me it's reddish in color and the taste reminds me of freshly baked rye bread. no one's actually had for so which beer did you like best most of the fun well they were all pretty great but i'll go for the goat the good be the outsider yeah the outsider. even if i'm thoroughly enjoying all of this right now we should leave town again and pans out with check in mirrors anton and anastasia from russia this end of the video from there make a scene in the can down mountains and is making fun from the looks of it they have a lovely track.

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