Monschengladbach, Rhenish Manchester as is popular for its booming cotton industry, located in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. There are numerous attractions to explore, surely admix of modern and ancient art city. Myriad of ancient churches, sculptures, monuments, fountains, manor houses and alluring parks are the remarkable tourist attractions. The landscape and city, a perfect fusion makes it the exuberant place for a leisure trip.

The former name was Gladbach, founding stone of the city was an abbey built in 974 accompany the neighbor villages. It got the status of city in 14th century and name became Munchen-gladbach to discriminate it from other city, but still to avoid miss understanding, that it is the district of Munchen, the name became Monschengladbach.

Monschengladbach is a tremendous jaunt, offers numerous museums. The most popular of all is the Abteiberg museum, do you have impetuous passion for contemporary art, so don’t forget to visit the famous impressive collection of modern art in Abteiberg. The museum exhibiting huge collection of artifacts, sculptures, monuments and also include the works from Thomas Houseago. Near the museum the magnificent renaissance style palace of its time Schloss Rheydt used as residence to noble families, becoming the renowned museum of fine art, awarded by the EMF (Eruopean Museum Forum) in 1978, surely deserve a visit.

Monschengladbach offers the fabled parks with all the recreation and amusement, visitors indulge into the healthy green foliage and recreation activities. One of the renowned and ravishing park in the city is the Bunter Garten, a municipal park covering large area around 30 hectares. The park escorted with Botanical Garden, collection of trees (arboretum) and collection of birds. Park is famous for having around 4000 plant species and 200 birds. The colossal look of artwork and architecture of Monschengladbach, the park offers you a perfect place of relaxation and pleasure.

The Town Hall the baroque style building formerly was a monastery built in 1663, situated near the market of the city. Munschengladbacher Munster is the remnants back from 12th century, a fascinating church of St. Vitus.

If you have crave for shopping and dining, city offers you myriad of choices with glamorous shopping centers and well known lush eateries, so slake your thirst and have fun in Monschengladbach. Kaiser Friedrich Halle a famous theater in heart of the city, where you can have eternal experience of classical music and drama.