The Love Parade was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum were canceled.
Loveparade 1998 in Berlin
Lovers on the Love Parade, 1999
LoveParade in Tel Aviv in October 2004
Duisburg is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 15th-largest city in Germany.
Duisburg Inner Harbour
Coat of arms of Duisburg at the town hall in Duisburg
Mercatorbrunnen ("Mercator fountain") in front of the town hall
Remains of the city wall