Linköping – A park in the city

Trädgårdsföreningen in Linköping The Linköping Horticulture Society was founded on 22 March 1859 to create an English style city park for recreational, educational and horticultural purposes. In 2009, celebrating its 150-year existence, the city park’s attractiveness relies on its old trees, herbaceous borders, streams and ponds, the Belvedere tower, rose collections, the Tropical House, a…

Grugapark Essen

Visitors to the Grugapark can relax in the green spaces, discover interesting information in the exhibition gardens and glasshouses, and also enjoy an attractive recreational and cultural programme. Three generations of Essen’s population have experienced the Grugapark as a place for brilliant displays of flowers, Sunday outings, concerts, play and fun, firework displays and festivals,…

Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord

The centre of Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord is a disused blast furnace which today is a much visited industrial heritage site. Covering an area of approximately 200 hectares, the park comprises various areas of abandoned industrial sites and wastelands. The extremely diverse terrain is due to the many changes carried out to its topography, the different…