Flemish Brabant

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

Mobile anti-tank barriers, known as Cointet elements, formed the backbone of the Belgian KW line erected in 1939 to prevent a German invasion.

In 1939, construction of a 50-kilometre defence line between Koningshooikt and Wavre, known as the KW-Line, began on behalf of the Belgian army.

Almost five thousand kilometres of tracks, 45 major bridges, tunnels, turntables, weighbridges, countless stops all over the country and spacious depots with water towers, warehouses and tram sheds. The Belgian National Company of Light Railways constructed this widespread tram network from 1885 onwards.

The Joseph Lemaire sanatorium in the Belgian town of Overijse is one of the most famous modernist sanatoriums in the world.

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.

The "Molens van Orshoven" is the oldest preserved mill complex on the Leuven Vaartkom and withstood bombardments during both World Wars.

A new concrete water tower was erected in 1984 in a Flemish Brabant village near Halle.