Spanish engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo erected the world's first cable car suitable for passenger transport in 1907.
Spanish engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo erected the world's first cable car suitable for passenger transport in 1907.
In 1959, an eighty-metre-high blast furnace rose from the ground in Sestao, a municipality about five kilometres from the Spanish port city of Bilbao.
An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.
The Spanish Empire once spread over much of the world, but the Spanish-American War of 1898 dealt the global empire a death blow.
Since Roman times, the Aiako Harria massif in the Basque country has been tapped to extract minerals, including iron ores. Iron ore mining gained momentum in the mid-19th century.
Two brothers, Charles and Jules Collart, secured a concession in 1881 to mine iron ore at the foot of the Katzenberg in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
When the Belgian King Leopold II visited the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, he was delighted by the Tour du Monde attraction, a colourful mix of Japanese towers, Chinese porticos and Hindu-style galleries. All the architectural styles of the Far East were mixed there.
A well-hidden pedestrian tunnel under the railway in Brussels, inaugurated in 1913, connects two branches of the Koninginnelaan.
Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi.
A pedestrian bridge is constructed above the swing bridge over the old Brussels-Charleroi canal in Arquennes. Both were built between 1907 and 1910.
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