Your guide to discover
hidden heritage sites in
Belgium and Europe

When the Swedish mining company LKAB decided in 1903 to build an electric tram line in the young mining town of Kiruna, it wasn’t a luxury or a novelty. It was a pure necessity.

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.

Ever since 1923, Tempelhof has seen planes come and go. The airports of Paris, Amsterdam and London disappeared into thin air next to the number of flight movements in Berlin. The terminal quickly became too small.

During the First World War, the German army erected a high-voltage barrier of over three hundred kilometres from Knokke to the Three-Country Point near Aachen: the Wire of Death.

Fort Vaux in Verdun has become a symbol of the heroism of the French soldiers who braved days of siege and shell attacks by the German army during the First World War.

Verviers, the Belgian capital of the wool industry, had dozens of spinning mills, weaving mills, bleaching mills, cloth manufacturers and so-called conditioning buildings, the first stop for the wool delivered to the city.

During the final months of World War I, the British Army Troop Company Royal Engineers erected a concrete bridge over the Kemmelbeek near Ypres.