Hotels in Dortmund, Germany

A great attraction is the casino Hohensyburg, frequented every year by more than a million people: it is built on three floors, with all the typical games of the casinos in Las Vegas. From a cultural and architectural point of view, Dortmund is known as the 'City of the four churches': four sacred places, guarding important treasures: the church St. Petri with 30 sketches carved and gilded, the church of St. Marien with its beautiful altar, the church of St. Reinoldi with the belfry and the Propsteikirche, the only Catholic church, with Derick Baegert’s masterpieces by the altar.

Other heart of the city's culture is the Konzerthaus Dortmund, a concert hall opened in 2002 with capacity of over 2500 people in two rooms. Do not miss the museums: the art museum 'am Ostwall' dedicated to the art of the twentieth and twenty-first century, the Museum of Natural Science, Museum für Naturkunde, over 2,000 square meters of exhibition space with the life-size reconstruction of two prehistoric dinosaurs and the museum of art and culture, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in an Art Nouveau building with archaeological collections, paintings and sculptures, but also visual art, graphics and photography. Also the mine Zeche Zollern is worth a visit, evidence of ancient mining activities in the area and the Ruhr.

Among the most important events of Dortmund, there are the Mayday, a techno music show famous throughout Europe; the Micro! Festival!, with music and theater groups that invade the streets and squares; the Extraschicht, the night of industrial culture, with events and shows distributed in fifty locations throughout the city.

Shopping in Dortmund is on Westenhellweg and Ostenhellweg, in the historical centre, as well as on Hansastrasse, where there are the boutiques of the most famous designers, in the commercial center Propstei-Arkaden or along the avenues Kleppingstrasse and Brückstrasse, in a recently renovated area with shops and boutiques of young fashion and sport.

At an economic level, of great importance in Dortmund is the Messe, the trade fair of the city, with an exhibition space with a dozen of large halls, service centers, and hotels by the major international chains. Here take place the most important European trade fairs dedicated to hunting and fishing (Jagd und Hund), modeling (Intermodellbau) and Inter-tabac, International Fair of Tobacco and smokers items.