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Belgium Beckons - April 2005 | |
AIA Spring Tour |
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The Borinage is the name of an industrial region surrounding Mons and extending to the French border. Traditionally a coal-mining district, most of the mines have now been closed |
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The planned mining village of Bois du Luc |
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Le Grand Hornu was built between 1810 and 1830 by Henri De Gorge. With an iron-working site in the middle of a planned village, it is an example of functional town-planning unique on the European continent at the start of the great era of industrialisation |
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Charleroi
is at the heart of the ‘pays noir’, once known for coal and iron and
steel |
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| Bois-du-Casier - Scene of Belgium’s greatest mining disaster in 1956 when 262 miners were killed. Now a preserved site. |
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Charleroi was known for iron and steel working. A museum has been created in one of the buildings of the 'Forge de la Providence' in Marchienne-au-Pont where the Cockerill company had large steelworks. |
| Soignies is the centre for quarrying ‘pierre bleue’ which is used extensively in Belgium as a decorative building material. |
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Canal sites
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