Things to do in Belgium

A 49-meter-long bridge over the River Scheldt, dating back to 1959, was the first railway bridge in Belgium to utilise the technique of prestressed concrete.

For more than half a century, you’ve been able to cross the Kempen Canal near Geel via a Bailey bridge, a temporary bridge developed for military purposes during World War II.

Rising quietly beside the tracks of Oudenaarde Station in East Flanders, the old water tower is easy to overlook—yet it stands as a striking piece of industrial heritage.

Even though the curtain fell on the United Textile Mills (Verenigde Textielfabrieken or Vetex) in Kortrijk over 30 years ago, the company name still graces the streetscape

A concrete water tower still testifies to the ultimate attempt by a group of West Flanders flax companies to secure sufficient water to sustain flax production.

Neutral Moresnet was a mini-state on the border with Belgium for over a century, with the zinc company Vieille Montagne exercising control there.

In 1937, steel company S.A. d'Ougrée-Marihaye established its central workshops in Ougrée, Belgium. The workshops were strategically located on a railway line between the former Ougrée coking plant and the extinguished Blast Furnace B.

For over a century, a graceful concrete bridge has stood above the railway tracks near Mouscron station in Belgium

A more than 100-year-old port crane waltzed around Antwerp's port docks until early this century.

At barely 25, Jules de Hemptinne stood at the cradle of a cotton spinning and weaving mill on the Kolveniersgang.