Bruges
Although today, Vloethemveld is a 350-hectare nature reserve a stone's throw from Bruges, it was once home to a Belgian army ammunition depot and the nature area also hides other military secrets.
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Berlin
The Berlin Wall has still not revealed all its secrets: only in 2018 were two forgotten sections of the Wall (re)discovered.
Berlin
On the former GDR border between West and East Berlin, you will find the forgotten remains of the wastewater treatment plant of a disappeared textile factory.
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Hainaut
The ten-kilometre-long railway line 102 cut through the Borinage and connected several coal mines between Saint-Ghislain and Frameries.
Hainaut
A 49-meter-long bridge over the River Scheldt, dating back to 1959, was the first railway bridge in Belgium to utilise the technique of prestressed concrete.
East Flanders
Almost thirty years after the construction of this useless bridge, the planned regional road underneath has still not been constructed. Instead of cars rushing by, nature is given free rein for now.
Flemish Brabant
The invention of the Bessemer process in 1856 made large-scale steel production possible, heralding the start of the Second Industrial Revolution.
Liège
In the early twentieth century, a tunnel more than 140 meters long was excavated right through the rock on which the castle ruins of the Counts of Dalhem rest to construct local tramway line 466 between Liège and 's-Gravenvelden.
Grand Est
Deep beneath the Lorraine soil in northeastern France lie coal seams that were extensively extracted after the end of the First World War.
Sardinia
In the mid-nineteenth century, the wooded no man's land around Montevecchio grew into one of the largest mining empires in Sardinia.
Namur
One hundred years ago, the last train stopped at the prestigious "Château Royal d'Ardenne" train station. But what did the travellers look for in Belgian Little Switzerland?
Berlin
With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.
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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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