Discover the beauty of Europe's abandoned places, from desolate factories to forgotten ghosttowns, and uncover the stories behind these haunting relics of the past.
A concrete ventilation tower in the middle of a meadow is the only sign of Fort de Boncelles' presence in Seraing.
When Limburg became the El Dorado of Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, coal mines sprang up like mushrooms. In their wake, garden suburbs and engineers' and directors' homes were built.
There is no shortage of famous residents in the Prince's Castle of Grimbergen, such as the Princes of Grimbergen, the noble family de Mérode, Van Glymes, and Van der Aa.
John Cockerill (and the rest of his family) propelled Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia and France into the era of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. A few decades after Cockerill's death, a monument honoring the 'father of the workers' was unveiled in the streets of Seraing.
In 1905, a brickworks arose in Rampskapelle near the Belgian coastal town Nieuwpoort. Four years later, it became the property of Céramiques et Briqueteries Mécaniques du Littoral.
The former Morlanwelz orphanage is only a shadow of its former self. However, in the early twentieth century, it was the social showcase of the liberal philanthropist Raoul Warocqué.
During the First World War, the German army erected a high-voltage barrier of over three hundred kilometres from Knokke to the Three-Country Point near Aachen: the Wire of Death.
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