The Liedtspark in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, not only has a whole series of follies in store, but on the edge of the park, you will also find a transformer house that has been given the contours of a medieval castle tower.
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The Liedtspark in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, not only has a whole series of follies in store, but on the edge of the park, you will also find a transformer house that has been given the contours of a medieval castle tower.
Two dilapidated watchman's pavilions, built in the early nineteenth century, are at the edge of a vast forest in Wallonia.
Two hundred years ago, in 1823, the Ghent city architect Louis Roelandt started establishing the first gas factory on the Waalse Krook, specifically on the site where the Ghent city library now stands.
A monumental bonded warehouse was built in 1902 at the Essen border station along railway line 12 between Antwerp (Belgium) and Roosendaal in the Netherlands.
A new concrete water tower was erected in 1984 in a Flemish Brabant village near Halle.
A vast forest in Wallonia was crossed in 1876 by the single-track line 90A between Jurbise and Saint-Ghislain.
Close to the three-country point between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, you will find remains of a train stop named after an unsightly hamlet that is part of Plombières.
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.
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