Things to do in Belgium

After over fifty years of disuse, this old quarry was cleaned up and made accessible to the general public again.

A concrete ventilation tower in the middle of a meadow is the only sign of Fort de Boncelles' presence in Seraing.

When Limburg became the El Dorado of Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, coal mines sprang up like mushrooms. In their wake, garden suburbs and engineers' and directors' homes were built.

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 former railway line 39 plunges from Welkenraedt station through valleys and zinc mines to the Three-country point.

The Dender River takes you from an industrial landscape in Aalst full of textile mills, malthouses and silos to a green oasis dominated by drawbridges and locks.

At the place where the Leuven professor of geology and mining, André Dumont dug up the Limburg soil from 1901 to find coal, a monument commemorates his find.