World heritage

Beguinages, carnivals, belfries, coalmines… Belgium is well represented on the Unesco World Heritage List.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encourages the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world that is of outstanding value to humanity.

Europe is particularly well represented on the list of heritage sites, as is Belgium.

The Flemish beguinages

The Grand-Place in Brussels

The four boat lifts of the Canal du Centre and their site, La Louvière and Le Roeulx in the Hainaut

33 belfries of Flanders and Wallonia

The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Tournai

The major houses of the architect Victor Horta in Brussels

The historic centre of Bruges

The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes in Mons

The Plantin-Moretus house-workshops-museum complex located in Antwerp

The museum is devoted to developments in printing from the 15th to the 18th century

Stoclet House in Brussels

It marked a radical change in Art nouveau, ushering in Art Deco and the modernist movement in the world of architecture

Four Walloon mining sites. They are located in Grand-Hornu (Mons), Bois-du-Luc (La Louvière), Bois du Cazier (Charleroi) and Blegny-Mine (Liège).

The sites are symbols of the industrial revolution and are the best preserved sites of the coal mining industry in Belgium, from the early 19th century to the second half of the 20th century

The carnival of Binche

Shrimp fishing on horseback in Oostduinkerke

The Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse

The processional giants and dragons

Traditional games in Flanders

Actualités

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This year, National Day coincides with the 10th anniversary of the reign of King Philippe.

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