A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
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A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
In the valley of the River Thyle, a group of monks came together in 1146 to build the Villers Abbey.
With its 17 bunkers linked together, the fortress of Eben-Emael was considered impregnable—or so the Belgian army thought.
A concrete ventilation tower in the middle of a meadow is the only sign of Fort de Boncelles' presence in Seraing.
When Limburg became the El Dorado of Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, coal mines sprang up like mushrooms. In their wake, garden suburbs and engineers' and directors' homes were built.
There is no shortage of famous residents in the Prince's Castle of Grimbergen, such as the Princes of Grimbergen, the noble family de Mérode, Van Glymes, and Van der Aa.
John Cockerill (and the rest of his family) propelled Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia and France into the era of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. A few decades after Cockerill's death, a monument honoring the 'father of the workers' was unveiled in the streets of Seraing.
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