Your guide to discover
hidden heritage sites in
Belgium and Europe

In the early twentieth century, a water tower was erected near the Treignes border station to supply the steam locomotives running between Charleroi and the French border.

Two axle trams, PCC trams, horse-drawn carriages or steam trams: historic tram carriages crossed the city center of Ghent to mark 150 years of trams.

In the spring of 1956, Dutch Queen Juliana set the world's largest radio telescope in motion in the Dutch village of Dwingeloo with a simple push of a button.

'Welsh Slate' dominated the north-west economy of Wales from 1850 onwards. Slate was exploited in dozens of quarries, such as in the smaller Rhos, on a flank of the Moel Siabod mountain in Snowdonia.

On the outskirts of Mons is the Héribus slag heap, a 138-meter-high spoil heap next to the coal mine of the same name that was active here until 1968.

A reinforced concrete headframe is all that remains of the Dutemple coal mine, which has operated for almost two centuries.

Although the ruins of Sa Macchina Beccia resemble a fairytale castle from a distance, with their battlements, tower and round-arched windows, appearances are deceptive.

The 43-metre-high headframe of the Saint-Amé mine reminds us of the turbulent coal history of the northern French municipality of Liévin, near Lens.

On the Stralau headland between the Spree and Rummelsburger See, in Germany's capital, Berlin, you'll find some impressive industrial heritage, established by the Jewish businessman Edmund Nathan in 1889: the ruins of the Stralau glass factory.