Discover Europe's rich industrial heritage with a journey through its historic sites. From towering steel mills to repurposed factories, explore the monuments to innovation and the legacy of the Industrial Revolution.
A new concrete water tower was erected in 1984 in a Flemish Brabant village near Halle.
A vast forest in Wallonia was crossed in 1876 by the single-track line 90A between Jurbise and Saint-Ghislain.
Close to the three-country point between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, you will find remains of a train stop named after an unsightly hamlet that is part of Plombières.
In the East Flemish village of Basel, there is a two-hundred-year-old suspension bridge that engineer Jean-Baptiste Vifquain designed on behalf of Philippe Vilain XIIII, a Dutch King William I chamberlain.
The eruption of Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano in November 1996 initially went unnoticed because it occurred under one of Europe's largest glaciers.
In Pontypridd, in the heart of the Welsh coalfield, is Hetty Shaft, one of the three mining seats that was founded by the Great Western Colliery Company.
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