Grand Est
The rock castle of Lutzelhardt was partly carved out of the sandy rocks of the 400-metre-high Adelsberg at some point in the 13th century.
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Hainaut
When the Quesnoy coal mine closed in 1972, it was the last active mine in the Belgian Center coal region.
Limburg
A tangle of railways ran through the Limburg coal region, transporting millions of tons of coal to ports and blast furnaces. The coal wagons have disappeared, but old stations and tracks remind us of the busy traffic of yesteryear.
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Ghent
In just a few years, the Schipperskaai, a traffic-free walking and cycling promenade, has undergone a true metamorphosis with the construction of a new urban district.
Bruges
A century after the construction of the Waggelwater Bridge, a railway bridge over the Bruges-Ostend canal, a new railway bridge was commissioned in 2009, and trains no longer crossed the monumental Waggelwater Bridge.
Berlin
In 1936, just before the Second World War broke out, Germany organized the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Bruges
Two and a half centuries ago, on 13 February 1787, the first burial took place in Bruges' Central Cemetery on the outskirts of the city.
Zeeland
Of the more than 260 water towers that have appeared in the Dutch landscape since 1856, 175 remain, including the water tower in Axel in Zeeland.
Hauts-de-France
This truncated metal headframe took miners from the French Meurchin coal mine four hundred metres underground to cut coal.
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