Abandoned places

L'ouvrage du Four-à-Chaux was one of the gros ouvrages or large artillery works of the French Maginot Line. Yet almost nothing of it can be seen above ground.

As if the Atlantic Wall defensive strongholds in the Ostend dunes were not enough, Nazi Germany erected a second line of defence in the hinterland.

At the Spanish amusement park Monte Igueldo, you can ride on the Scenic Railway, a nearly 100-year-old forerunner of the modern rollercoaster.

In 1973, the foundation stone of the nuclear power plant of the future was laid in Kalkar, Germany. However, power was never produced there. Where did it go wrong?

In 1990, a Sherman tank was parked at Balgerhoeke lock in Eeklo in honour of the Canadians who liberated the town from German occupation on 15 September 1944.

Monte Ulía was listed during the belle éopuqe as a must-see during a visit to the Spanish coastal city of San Sebastian.

Anyone entering Nieuwpoort via Kinderlaan will come across the remains of the World War II German Widerstandsnest Karthauserdünen.

The Castillo de la Monta atop the 123-metre-high Monte Urgull has watched over the Spanish coastal city of San Sebastián since the 12th century. 

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. 

The Abbey of Aulne was founded around 637 on the wooded banks of the Sambre. Golden years and disaster succeeded for centuries, but the French Revolution dealt the abbey the final blow.