Charleroi
A Belgian coal city that collapsed and has been rebuilding itself as somewhere to look at industrial ruin honestly. Bois du Cazier is a UNESCO site and a memorial to 262 miners.
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The Bois du Cazier was a coal mine in what was then the town of Marcinelle, near Charleroi, in Belgium which today is preserved as an industrial heritage site. It is best known as the location of a major mining disaster that took place on August 8, 1956 in which 262 men, including a large number of Italian labourers, were killed.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Dec 2025
Bourgeois.A · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cartier Castle is a château in Marchienne-au-Pont, a district of Charleroi, in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Aug 2026
The Church of Saint Sulpice is a Catholic church in Jumet, a neighborhood of the Belgian city of Charleroi in Hainaut Province, Wallonia. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. The oldest material traces of a religious building on the site date back to the 10th century.
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The Maison Mattot is a modernist-style residential building on Frans Dewandre Boulevard in Charleroi, Belgium. It was designed in 1937 by architect Marcel Leborgne for the Reine Astrid Maternity Hospital's director, Dr. Mattot. It is a terraced townhouse with a consultation room on the first floor and an apartment on the piano nobile, adapted to the needs of a single person.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 24 Jul 2026
Jmh2o · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bois du Cazier was a coal mine in what was then the town of Marcinelle, near Charleroi, in Belgium which today is preserved as an industrial heritage site. It is best known as the location of a major mining disaster that took place on August 8, 1956 in which 262 men, including a large number of Italian labourers, were killed.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Dec 2025
Bourgeois.A · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cartier Castle is a château in Marchienne-au-Pont, a district of Charleroi, in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Aug 2026
The Church of Saint Sulpice is a Catholic church in Jumet, a neighborhood of the Belgian city of Charleroi in Hainaut Province, Wallonia. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. The oldest material traces of a religious building on the site date back to the 10th century.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Jul 2026
Jmh2o · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Maison Mattot is a modernist-style residential building on Frans Dewandre Boulevard in Charleroi, Belgium. It was designed in 1937 by architect Marcel Leborgne for the Reine Astrid Maternity Hospital's director, Dr. Mattot. It is a terraced townhouse with a consultation room on the first floor and an apartment on the piano nobile, adapted to the needs of a single person.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 24 Jul 2026
Jmh2o · CC BY-SA 4.0