Antwerp
A 33-kilometre-long canal zigzags from Stabroek to the Albert Canal in Antwerp. What at first glance looks like a strip of nature was initially intended to hold up German tanks.
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Aachen
In 1938, the Organization Todt, the construction company of the German Third Reich, began constructing the West Wall (or Siegfried Line), a German defence line from the Netherlands to the Swiss border.
Hainaut
Two dilapidated watchman's pavilions, built in the early nineteenth century, are at the edge of a vast forest in Wallonia.
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Iceland
A stormy night ended dramatically for the crew of a British trawler on March 13, 1948. Their ship crashed off the rocky coast of Dritvik in western Iceland.
Berlin
The Berlin Wall has still not revealed all its secrets: only in 2018 were two forgotten sections of the Wall (re)discovered.
Berlin
A control tower was erected at West Berlin's Joachimsthaler Platz to manage car traffic in 1956.
Sardinia
The neo-medieval preparation plant of Lamarmora is located on the seafront of Masua in Sardinia.
Berlin
Electric street lighting, arc lamps, neon lights,... In 1932, the German capital Berlin was the best lighted city on earth, according to Mildred Adams, correspondent at The New York Times.
Charleroi
Unlike the Belgian cities of Liège, Antwerp, Ghent or Brussels, Charleroi never hosted a World Fair. Therefore, the smaller-scale Universal Exhibition of Charleroi in 1911 was no less ambitious.
Basque Country
Since Roman times, the Aiako Harria massif in the Basque country has been tapped to extract minerals, including iron ores. Iron ore mining gained momentum in the mid-19th century.
East Flanders
A few months before the First World War broke out, the Langerbrugge power station started producing electricity 'to provide the surrounding municipalities with electric light'.
Wales
Wales' largest optical telescope has been on Swansea's coastline since the 1990s. But when the municipality increased the rent, the Swansea Astronomical Society cut and ran.
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