Your guide to discover
hidden heritage sites in
Belgium and Europe

During the Second World War, the Germans built an observation bunker between Zuydcoote and Leffrinckoucke on top of the dunes.

The cut-off meanders of the once winding Dender river form a unique nature reserve today, with this centuries-old drawbridge as the cherry on top.

When Limburg became the El Dorado of Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, coal mines sprang up like mushrooms. In their wake, garden suburbs and engineers' and directors' homes were built.

Before GPS, satellites and 3D scanning revolutionised land surveying, surveyors had to make do with what they had: a clear line of sight, a sharp pencil and fixed physical markers in the landscape.

The Eede-Aardenburg air watchtower is one of the 276 lookout posts built in the Netherlands during the Cold War.

On the night of April 25 to 26, 1940, the British Royal Air Force bombed the German capital Berlin. For Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, it was unpalatable to have bombs hit the capital of his Third Reich.

Almost 100 years ago, the electric locomotive ADU No. 6 was assembled in the former steelworks of the Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, better known as Arbed.

The Spanish Empire once spread over much of the world, but the Spanish-American War of 1898 dealt the global empire a death blow.