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Cultural Metropolis RUHR.2010 is a project which sets out to demonstrate the diversity and richness of what the area alongside the river Ruhr has to offer and what its people can achieve when they pool their efforts. 53 participating towns, municipalities and districts between Xanten in the west and Hamm in the east are looking forward to playing host to the many guests who – hopefully – will be visiting us from within Germany and from abroad. Under the motto ‘Social Inclusion’ the organizers show their commitment to ensuring that visitors with disabilities will, of course, also have easy and trouble-free access, just like everyone else, to the many events, and that their visit will be remembered as an ‘experience for all’.

But the Cultural Metropolis RUHR.2010 is much more than just twelve months of cultural events; it also stands for permanent leisure attractions such as Warner Brothers Movie World (Bottrop), Sea Life (Oberhausen), ZOOM (Gelsenkirchen), Legoland (Duisburg), Starlight Express (Bochum), the North Duisburg Landscape Park, the old Colliery ‘Zollverein’ (Essen) or the Bochum Mining Museum. It stands for gastronomic variety, modern shopping facilities and sophisticated entertainment. And it stands for local recreation areas, for vast expanses of green open spaces and for attractive sport and leisure facilities.