A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
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A military railway line, a dilapidated monument and an anti-tank trenches surround the ruins of the Brasschaat fortress.
In the valley of the River Thyle, a group of monks came together in 1146 to build the Villers Abbey.
With its 17 bunkers linked together, the fortress of Eben-Emael was considered impregnable—or so the Belgian army thought.
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.
A concrete ventilation tower in the middle of a meadow is the only sign of Fort de Boncelles' presence in Seraing.
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.
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