Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
The overgrown ruins and collapsed roofs of the French Arthur de Buyer coal mine do not suggest that a French record was broken here in 1900.
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Hainaut
When the Quesnoy coal mine closed in 1972, it was the last active mine in the Belgian Center coal region.
Hainaut
A kilometre-long canal tunnel was dug at the end of the nineteenth century to allow larger ships to sail on the canal.
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On the occasion of International Art Nouveau Day, celebrated each year on June 10, a look at how this ornate architectural movement found its way into the most unlikely of places like coal mines, power stations, and railway yards and the long, sometimes heartbreaking battles to save what remains.
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