IGA Ruhr 2027 Garden Show Green, creative and forward-looking
From April to October 2027, the Ruhr region will become the stage for the International Garden Exhibition IGA 2027. For the first time, the IGA is being held not in a single city but across an entire region, uniting industrial heritage, modern garden and landscape architecture, and pioneering concepts for sustainability and urban living in a unique way. Under the guiding theme "How do we want to live tomorrow?", IGA 2027 goes far beyond a traditional garden show. It is a platform for the questions of the future and a source of inspiration for innovative ideas in climate protection, mobility, urban greenery and quality of life.
Dates and prices
Day 1: Switzerland - Essen
Journey to Essen.
Day 2: Zukunftsgarten Dortmund
Covering around 7,000 m², the Zukunftsgarten Dortmund presents the full range of modern garden and plant culture. From classic seasonal bedding to innovative perennial plantings and practical garden designs, the exhibition combines colour, structure and creative themed worlds. The Hansa coking plant was once a symbol of industrial power. Today it is being carefully renovated by the Industrial Heritage Foundation and made accessible in new ways. For IGA 2027, the site is getting a new entrance area, which also forms the gateway to the Zukunftsgarten. Those who arrive here enter not just a historic site but a place of change – visible, tangible and open to new perspectives.
Seen from there, behind the buildings, the Kokereipark is taking shape, a leisure and recreation space 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 adventure sculpture "Wolke" (Cloud). Seven interlocking steel rings, up to 28 metres in diameter, recall the clouds of steam from industrial times past.
Day 3: Zukunftsgarten Gelsenkirchen
The theme of climate adaptation runs like a golden thread through the entire Zukunftsgarten 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 the Nordstern colliery, which will be opened to the public permanently for the first time for IGA 2027. Natural walkways, rest areas and viewing platforms invite you to linger. Floating flower islands and – during the IGA year – artistically staged water shows make this spot a special experience right on the canal. A functional industrial site is thus transformed into an extraordinary leisure and recreation space.
Day 4: Zukunftsgarten Duisburg
(Optional) The Zukunftsgarten Duisburg showcases horticultural diversity at a high professional level, combining classic design with pioneering planting concepts. Across more than 11,000 square metres, seasonal bedding areas, perennial plantings, woody plant displays and floral arrangements keep the park vibrant throughout the entire IGA. A particular unique feature is the large-scale rose display. It reinterprets the guiding question of IGA 2027, "How do we want to live tomorrow?", in horticultural terms, relying on heat- and drought-tolerant rose varieties combined with perennials and grasses from Mediterranean vegetation zones – explicitly designed to be insect-friendly and ecological. Alternatively, you may spend your day as you wish in Essen.
Day 5: Essen - Switzerland
Return journey to Switzerland.
Comfort
Der Comfort-Bus, bietet Ihnen alles, worauf Sie als Reisegast Wert legen. Besonders die grosse Beinfreiheit wird Sie überraschen. Unsere Comfort-Busse sind mit 26 – 50 Plätzen ausgestattet.
- 26–50 verstellbare Komfortsitze
- Sicherheitsgurten an jedem Sitzplatz
- Freistehender Klapptisch pro Sitz, bewegliche Fussstützen
- 220-Volt Steckdose pro Sitzplatz *
- Radio / DVD / Navigationssystem
- Klimaanlage, Toilette und Waschraum, Kühlschrank, Kaffeemaschine
- Spurassistent und Abstandtempomat *
- Gratis WLAN/Internet in Europa
* die meisten Fahrzeuge der EUROBUS Flotte sind damit ausgerüstet
INCLUDED
- Travel by Comfort coach
- Accommodation at the 3* Hotel Four Points Flex by Sheraton Essen, based on a double room
- HB (dinner/breakfast)
- Location map for Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen
Hotels
The 3* Four Points Flex by Sheraton Essen impresses with its central location in Essen, just a few minutes' walk from the main railway station and the city centre. The modern hotel has a welcoming breakfast area where a generous breakfast buffet awaits you each morning, as well as a cosy bar for drinks and light snacks. The comfortable, air-conditioned rooms are equipped with shower/WC, hairdryer, safe, flat-screen TV, desk and Wi-Fi. An equivalent hotel will be provided if the hotel is unavailable.
