Editing Dortmund (section)

===Festivals and nightlife===
[[File:Mayday 2009 dortmund halle 1.jpg|thumb|right|Mayday 2009 Westfalenhallen]]
Dortmund offers a variety of restaurants, bars and clubs. Clubs concentrate in and around the city centre (Wallring) and in the Kreuzviertel district. Furthermore, Dortmund is one of the main centres of the Electronic dance music and techno subculture. With the [[Mayday (music festival)|Mayday]] and Syndicate festivals, the Westfalenhalle Arena has become one of the most important techno strongholds in [[Europe]]. 

After negotiations with several German cities, it was announced that the [[Love Parade]] would move to the [[Ruhr Area]] for five years (2007–2012). 
After [[Essen]] in 2007 the festival took 2008 place on the [[Bundesstraße 1]] under the motto ''Highway of Love''. The event was planned as a "Love Weekend", with parties throughout the region. For the first time the Turkish electronic scene was represented by its own float, called "[[Turkish Delights (music project)|Turkish Delights]]". The official estimate is that 1.6 million visitors attended, making it the largest parade to date.<ref>
{{Cite news
  | last = Volmerich
  | first = Oliver
  | title = Feucht, fröhlich, friedlich
  | newspaper = [[Ruhr Nachrichten]], Dortmunder Zeitung
  | pages = DOLO1x1
  | date = 21 July 2008
  }}, in [[German language]]</ref>

Every year, the Juicy Beats music festival turns the Westfalenpark into a huge festival ground for pop, rap, electro, indie, alternative, reggae, and urban beats – most recently with over 50,000 visitors.