In a remote corner of the Maritime Station, a former freight station in Brussels, a water tower in the Art Nouveau style was built to refuel steam locomotives with water.
In a remote corner of the Maritime Station, a former freight station in Brussels, a water tower in the Art Nouveau style was built to refuel steam locomotives with water.
A 33-kilometre-long canal zigzags from Stabroek to the Albert Canal in Antwerp. What at first glance looks like a strip of nature was initially intended to hold up German tanks.
More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.
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.
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