Food and drinks

Discover Europe's hidden culinary past through our curated collection of historical sites, from the echoes of abandoned factories to the storied Berlin slaughterhouse, and ancient aqueducts that once quenched the thirst of civilizations. Dive into the essence of food and drink heritage.

Drinking water for Brussels

In the mid-nineteenth century, an aqueduct was constructed in Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant to bring water from the Hain River to the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Berlin

Old slaughterhouse in Berlin

The Zentralvieh- und Schlachthof on Storkower Straße is a textbook example of a repurposed VEB ruin. Pigs, cows and sheep have been slaughtered here since the sixteenth century.

Berlin

Cold storage wharehouse in Berlin

A stone's throw from the Anhalter Bahn freight station in the German capital, Berlin, construction of a new cold storage warehouse began in 1900.

Portugal

Drinking water for Lisbon

A 941-meter-long aqueduct stretches across the Alcântara Valley in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

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Six blast furnaces you can visit today

In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.

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