Things to do in Belgium

The Crachet-Picquery coal mine was one of 11 mining settlements operated by the Charbonnage de Frameries in and around the Borinage commune of the same name.

Transfo Zwevegem, Zwevegem's old power station, has been generating steam and electricity in the region since 1911. The power station is now repurposed.

Over the course of the twentieth century, the Sanitary Underwear Company emerged as the second-largest textile factory in Zottegem, East Flanders.

No fewer than 712 steam engines rolled off the production line at the Carels Frères construction workshop (later ACEC) in the Belgian town of Ghent between 1874 and 1914.

The first American oil trickled into Europe via the port of Antwerp in 1863. The Antwerp petroleum industry established itself between the South and Hoboken.

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.

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.

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.