Belgian coast
The St. Peter's Church in Oud-Stuivekenskerke was only a shadow of its former self at the outbreak of the First World War. Only the late Gothic church tower from 1572 was still standing.
Things to do in Belgium
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West Flanders
After more than twenty years of vacancy, work on the modernist main building of the Kosmos holiday domain on the Rodeberg will start at the end of 2024. The modernist building will house a hotel, café and restaurant.
Hainaut
In the Hainaut village of Lessines, along the Dender, this piece of industrial history is rusting: a ship loader used for loading crushed stone on the boats.
West Flanders
One of the first open-air swimming pools in Belgium is located in Spiere-Helkijn. A water treatment plant at the mouth of the Spierebeek in the Scheldt was converted into an open-air swimming pool at the end of the 1930s.
Hainaut
A seven-hundred-meter long embankment, a splash of asphalt here and there, and two useless viaducts: cars will not immediately drive on the four-lane road of the N60 in Frasnes-lez-Anvaing.
Hainaut
Like a felled tree, the concrete shaft of the Hyon-Ciply coal mine has been lying on its side for almost 100 years.
Antwerp
About ten harbour cranes gather along the banks of the Scheldekaai in Antwerp, forming the largest (museum) collection of harbour cranes in the world.
West Flanders
Excavation works of the Ypres-Comines canal started in 1864. The canal would realize a connection between the Yser River and the Leie River. However, landslides at the ridge in Hollebeke soon threw a spanner in the works.
Hainaut
From December 1878 to October 1880, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh stayed in the Belgian mining region of the Borinage.
Hainaut
In 1810, industrialist Henri De Gorge bought the Grand-Hornu coal mine in the Borinage, a famous mining region in Belgium.
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