Things to do in Belgium

Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi. 

In both Seneffe and Arquennes, traffic was guided over the Brussels-Charleroi Canal via a swing bridge.

On the night of 10 May 1918, the British army attempted to block the Ostend harbour channel so that German submarines could no longer sail out.

A monument erected at the end of the twentieth century to pay tribute to the city's wool industry proves that Verviers was once the focal point of the Belgian wool industry.

The first steam locomotive built in Belgium left the workshops of John Cockerill in Seraing at the end of December 1835.

A three-arched brick viaduct stretches over the River Haine at Maurage.

In 1941, the National Local Railway Company (NMVB) built a bridge over the Gete for tram traffic between Sint-Truiden and Tienen.

A metal railway bridge over the Canal du Centre commemorates the passage of railway line 107 between Écaussinnes and Haine-Saint-Pierre in the province of Hainaut.

Slender columns with Corinthian capitals support a canopy in glass and iron above the platforms of Pepinster station.

On 24 November 1897, the entire municipality of Hamme was in a celebration mood. That day, the foundation stone was to be laid for a new bridge over the Durme. But it ended in tragedy.