The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.
The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.
Near the centre of Sorrento, Italy, lies the Vallone dei Mulini, an overgrown valley full of the ruins of old factories.
The iron headframe above the Pluto-Wilhelm mine in the German Ruhr area immediately evokes the Zollverein headframe in Essen, which has been declared a World Heritage Site. This counterpart is threatened with demolition.
In the 1950s, a cement factory opened in the heart of the Pyrenees. The quarry was a stone's throw away, while the coal came from the nearby mines of Malpàs. What could go wrong?
Years of coal mining in Zeche Hugo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, have left behind a one-hundred-and-fifteen-meter-high slag heap, the Halde Rungenberg.
A 240-meter-long station building was the icing on the cake of a railway line that extended the French Pau to Jaca in Spain.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the lung disease tuberculosis was rampant in Berlin. The Berliners preferred to see the contagious patients go rather than come. The Beelitz Heilstätten sanatorium was built on Berlin's outskirts in 1898.
The Berlin Wall has still not revealed all its secrets: only in 2018 were two forgotten sections of the Wall (re)discovered.
Wales' largest optical telescope has been on Swansea's coastline since the 1990s. But when the municipality increased the rent, the Swansea Astronomical Society cut and ran.
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