Industrial Heritage

The Cul du Mont forest's flank is littered with the Linglé slate quarry's ruins.

The Estrée viaduct stretches 27 meters above Chaussée d'Alsemberg, an abandoned railway bridge over which no trains have passed for more than forty years.

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

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.

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.

A wooden door surmounted by the Belgian coat of arms and the slogan 'L'Union fait la Force' conceals the royal salon, a separate waiting area for the king in Brussels Central Station.