Hauts-de-France
In the 20th century, the French commune of Bachy had more than 40 customs officers keeping an eye on the train station and along the approach roads from Belgium.
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Tête des Faux is a 1208-meter-high mountain in the French Vosges, and its large stature also explains the strategic role it played during the First World War.
West Flanders
The "Céramique et briquetteries méchaniques du Littoral" brickworks flanks the Kortrijk-Bossuit canal since 1924.
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Bruges
The Belgian city of Bruges developed into an economic powerhouse from the 11th century onwards, thanks to its Medieval Flemish cloth industry and its international port.
Brussels
More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.
Berlin
In 1940, the A115, a highway straight through the Düppeler Forst west of Berlin, was built.
Iceland
The ring road route around Iceland once skirted the smaller glacial lake Fjallsarlon, but now only the bridge pillars remain.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The German-German border, the 1,378-kilometer-long border that cut straight through Germany during the Cold War, was part of the Iron Curtain.
Hainaut
In 1810, industrialist Henri De Gorge bought the Grand-Hornu coal mine in the Borinage, a famous mining region in Belgium.
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Basque Country
Alberto Palacio, a Spanish engineer and architect, made history in 1893 when his design of a suspension bridge was put into use over the Nervión. This Spanish river flows into the Bay of Biscay near the port of Bilbao.
East Flanders
The German army fenced off the border between Belgium and the Netherlands from 1915 with a three-wire fence. Electric current of 2,000 volts was rushed through the middle wire.
East Flanders
A more than 100-year-old port crane waltzed around Antwerp's port docks until early this century.
South Holland
In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Dutch King William I gave the go-ahead for constructing the New Dutch Waterline. This defence line extended over a distance of 85 kilometres between the Zuiderzee and the Biesbosch.
Basque Country
Spanish engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo erected the world's first cable car suitable for passenger transport in 1907.
Basque Country
In 1959, an eighty-metre-high blast furnace rose from the ground in Sestao, a municipality about five kilometres from the Spanish port city of Bilbao.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.
Basque Country
The Spanish Empire once spread over much of the world, but the Spanish-American War of 1898 dealt the global empire a death blow.
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.
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Two brothers, Charles and Jules Collart, secured a concession in 1881 to mine iron ore at the foot of the Katzenberg in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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