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Garden Exhibition IGA Ruhr 2027
Trip highlights:
- Innovative experience worlds
- Modern landscape architecture
- Forward-looking open space design
Green, creative and future-focused
From April to October 2027, the Ruhr region becomes the stage for the International Garden Exhibition IGA 2027. For the first time, the IGA is not held in a single city but across an entire region, uniquely combining industrial heritage, modern garden and landscape architecture, and forward-looking concepts for sustainability and urban life. Under the guiding theme ‘How do we want to live tomorrow?’, IGA 2027 goes far beyond a conventional garden show. It is a platform for questions about the future and a catalyst for innovative ideas in climate protection, mobility, urban greenery and quality of life.
Day 1: Switzerland - Essen
Journey to Essen.
Day 2: Future Garden Dortmund
The Future Garden Dortmund presents the full range of modern garden and plant culture across around 7,000 m². From classic seasonal bedding to innovative perennial displays and everyday garden designs, the exhibition brings together colour, structure and creative theme worlds. The Kokerei Hansa was once a symbol of industrial power. Today it is being carefully restored by the Industriedenkmalstiftung and made accessible once again. For IGA 2027, the site is receiving a new entrance area that also forms the gateway to the Future Garden. Arriving here means entering not only a historic site, but a place of transformation – visible, tangible and open to new perspectives.
Viewed from there, behind the buildings, the Kokereipark is taking shape, a leisure and recreation area of around 14 hectares. Wide meadows, new paths and a variety of activities invite you to leave everyday life behind. At its heart is a spectacular highlight: the play and experience sculpture ‘Wolke’. Seven interlinked steel rings, up to 28 metres in diameter, recall the steam clouds of bygone industrial times.
Day 3: Future Garden Gelsenkirchen
The theme of climate adaptation runs like a red thread through the entire Future Garden in Gelsenkirchen. This is particularly evident in the Green-Blue Band: a new water landscape between the IGA entrance, the amphitheatre and the coal bunker. Another highlight is the former turning basin of Zeche Nordstern, which opens to the public for the first time and on a permanent basis for IGA 2027. Nature boardwalks and resting and viewing platforms invite you to linger. Floating flower islands and, during the IGA year, artistically staged water shows make the site a special experience right by the canal. In this way, a functional industrial area becomes an extraordinary leisure and recreation space.
Day 4: Future Garden Duisburg
(Optional) The Future Garden Duisburg showcases horticultural diversity of a high professional standard, combining classic design with forward-looking planting concepts. Across more than 11,000 square metres, seasonal bedding areas, perennial plantings, woody plant displays and floral installations will keep the park alive throughout the IGA. A particular unique feature is the large-scale rose display. It reinterprets the IGA 2027 guiding question ‘How do we want to live tomorrow?’ through horticulture, relying on heat- and drought-tolerant rose varieties combined with perennials and grasses from Mediterranean plant habitats – deliberately insect-friendly and ecologically conceived. Alternatively, you may spend the day at leisure in Essen.
Day 5: Essen - Switzerland
Return journey to Switzerland.
The 3* Four Points Flex by Sheraton Essen impresses with its central location in Essen, just a few minutes’ walk from the main station and the city centre. The modern hotel features an inviting breakfast area where a generous breakfast buffet awaits you in the morning, as well as a cosy bar serving drinks and light snacks. The comfortable, air-conditioned rooms are equipped with shower/WC, hairdryer, safe, flat-screen TV, desk and Wi-Fi. Comparable hotel if the above is unavailable.
Included services
- Journey by Comfort coach
- Accommodation at the 3* Four Points Flex by Sheraton Essen, basic double room
- HB (dinner/breakfast)
- Location map for Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen
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