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The former VEB Schultheiss-Brauerei Schönhauser Allee today houses everything except a brewery. Brewing beer had already come to an end in the GDR era.
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.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British military cemetery in continental Europe. More than 10,000 soldiers who died at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 during the First World War were buried in the monumental cemetery in Passchendaele.
"Bien travailler, bien s'amuser" (in English: Work hard, play hard) is the motto on the facade of the banquet hall of the Fauquez glass factory.
The monumental coal preparation plant of Beringen is the showcase of the Beringen coal mine. Yet the four wings of the complex were threatened with demolition for years. However, in 2023, the be-NATURE project was given the green light.
No fewer than 712 steam engines rolled off the production line at the Carels Frères construction workshop (later ACEC) in the Belgian town of Ghent between 1874 and 1914.
With the publication of the novel ‘Don Quixote’ in the early seventeenth century, Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes wrote one of the classics of world literature.
On Monday, January 1, 1872, the canal between the Leie and Roeselare was opened to shipping traffic. However, plans to extend the canal to Ostend or Nieuwpoort remained a dead letter.
A stone's throw from the Sardinian mining village of Carbonia, you will come across the Calcidrata factory, a remnant of the cement industry of yesteryear.
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Once a year, the Arenberg coal mine and two abandoned railway bridges play a starring role during the passage of the spring cycle classic: Paris-Roubaix.
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