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A monument in red granite at the former ferry port of Sassnitz betrays the passage of Vladimir Lenin.
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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.
West Flanders
A sculpted soldier guards the Canadian Forces Memorial near the hamlet of St Julian in Langemarck-Poelkapelle since 1922.
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Liège
Neutral Moresnet was a mini-state on the border with Belgium for over a century, with the zinc company Vieille Montagne exercising control there.
Hainaut
From December 1878 to October 1880, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh stayed in the Belgian mining region of the Borinage.
Belgian coast
Not much remains of Ramskapelle's former railway station today, as it was shot to pieces during the Battle of the Yser. The station was, therefore, right on the front line along the Yser.
Berlin
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.
Iceland
The abandoned Botnsskáli roadside restaurant was once one of the most popular stops along Iceland's heavily traveled Ring Road. Now, no one stops in this godforsaken place anymore.
West Flanders
Once a country house set in lush parkland just outside Ypres, Bedford House was blown to bits during the First World War. The ruins were then used as a field hospital and brigade headquarters, among other things.
Hainaut
The former railway line 87 plunges from Tournai over the language border in Ronse to Bassilly in Hainaut.
Grand Est
The headframe of Puits Vuillemin 2 is more than a century old; it is not only a rare survivor of France's coal-mining past but also a significant architectural and technological artefact in the history of industrialisation in Europe.
Berlin
In every district of Berlin, you will still come across Russian memorials for the soldiers of the Red Army who died in the Second World War.
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On the occasion of International Art Nouveau Day, celebrated each year on June 10, a look at how this ornate architectural movement found its way into the most unlikely of places like coal mines, power stations, and railway yards and the long, sometimes heartbreaking battles to save what remains.
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