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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Aging Beguinages in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Postbox outside Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Door of a Beguinage in Lier, Antwerp Province, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. The Flemish Beguinages, a World Historical Site, are a collection of small buildings built in the 13th century by the Beguines, a Roman Catholic Church lay sisterhood. The organization consisted of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

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Dawn over right wing of Het Steen, the 13th Century castle on the Schelde River built to protect the port of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe, and later used as a prison and museum.

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Dawn over right wing of Het Steen, the 13th Century castle on the Schelde River built to protect the port of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe, and later used as a prison and museum.

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Barge up on blocks at dawn by right wing of Het Steen, the 13th Century castle on the Schelde River built to protect the port of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe, and later used as a prison and maritime museum.

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Obsolete cranes in harbor of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Antwerp railway station, Belgium

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Counterbalanced suspension cables lower barges at the Strépy-Thieu boat lift, an engineering marvel in Strépy-Bracquegnies, Le Roeulx, Hainaut, Belgium, Europe.

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Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

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Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

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Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

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Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

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Canal boats in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the British used bridges and pontoons here to cross the Schelde River in sufficient numbers to defeat the French.

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Canal boats in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the British used bridges and pontoons here to cross the Schelde River in sufficient numbers to defeat the French.

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Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

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Antwerp guildhouses, Belgium

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Antwerp guildhouses, Belgium

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Het Steen, Antwerp, Belgium

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Antwerp guildhouses, Belgium

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National Maritime Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

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Antwerp cathedral, Belgium

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Discarded spiral staircases at Boat Lift 1 (Ascenseur 1) on the Canal du Centre, a World Heritage Site in La Louviere, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe. The lifts were built in the 19th century to allow barging of coal out of the Borinage area across Europe.

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Antwerp cathedral, Belgium

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Antwerp cathedral clock, Belgium

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Fields before town of Eine in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the first and most vicious fighting accidentally broke out in these fields off the Schelde River.

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View of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe, from the heights of Ename across the river. In the decisive battle of 11.7. 1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the Schelde River crossings here were a prime objective.

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Discarded spiral staircase at Boat Lift 1 (Ascenseur 1) on the Canal du Centre, a World Heritage Site in La Louviere, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe. The lifts were built in the 19th century to allow barging of coal out of the Borinage area across Europe.

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Cooling tower of a nuclear power plant beyond a windmill turned into a cafe on a dyke of the Schelde Estuary in the village of Doel in Antwerp Harbor, Antwerpen, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. Doel was suddenly abandoned by its entire population in 2008, supposedly to allow the state to expand the harbor that bounds it on all sides. Today all that remains is a ghost town.

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Cooling tower of a nuclear power plant beyond a windmill turned into a cafe on a dyke of the Schelde Estuary in the village of Doel in Antwerp Harbor, Antwerpen, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. Doel was suddenly abandoned by its entire population in 2008, supposedly to allow the state to expand the harbor that bounds it on all sides. Today all that remains is a ghost town.

Ascenseur 1; Canal du Centre; La Louviereere; Hainaut; Walloon Region; Belgium; Europe; Low Countries; Benelux; Belgique; Central Canal; La Louviere

Repairs underway at Boat Lift 1 (Ascenseur 1) on the Canal du Centre, a World Heritage Site in La Louviere, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe. The lifts were built in the 19th century to allow barging of coal out of the Borinage area across Europe.

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Repairs underway at Boat Lift 1 (Ascenseur 1) on the Canal du Centre, a World Heritage Site in La Louviere, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe. The lifts were built in the 19th century to allow barging of coal out of the Borinage area across Europe.

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Motorcycle club stops by a cooling tower of a nuclear power plant behind a windmill turned into a cafe on a dyke of the Schelde Estuary in the village of Doel in Antwerp Harbor, Antwerpen, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. Doel was suddenly abandoned by its entire population in 2008, supposedly to allow the state to expand the harbor that bounds it on all sides. Today all that remains is a ghost town.

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Former hotel below a dyke of the Schelde Estuary in the village of Doel in Antwerp Harbor, Antwerpen, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. Doel was suddenly abandoned by its entire population in 2008, supposedly to allow the state to expand the harbor that bounds it on all sides. Today all that remains is a ghost town.

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Former hotel below a dyke of the Schelde Estuary in the village of Doel in Antwerp Harbor, Antwerpen, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. Doel was suddenly abandoned by its entire population in 2008, supposedly to allow the state to expand the harbor that bounds it on all sides. Today all that remains is a ghost town.

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Campaign posters for the 2009 European Union elections on a wall in Brussels, Belgium, Europe.

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Fortified farm in Oicke village of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the French right flank centered on this village before the English turned it and routed them.

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Fortified farm in Oicke village of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), the French right flank centered on this village before the English turned it and routed them.

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Obscure Belgian aristocrat points to at the clouds from atop a guild hall on the Grand Place in Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Grain milling windmill in Wannegem section of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe

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Staires up to doorway of grain milling windmill in Wannegem village of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Garden wall with flowering vine in springtime in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre district of Brussels, Belgium, Europe.

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Cantillon Brewery in Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, the last lambic brewery in Brussels. It brews lambic beers like kriek and gueuze in the traditional style, unchanged since it was founded in 1900.

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Antwerp cathedral and Rubens statue, Belgium

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The Schelde River at Ename, Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium, Europe. In the decisive battle of 11.7.1708 between the British Allies (under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy) and the French (led by Louis, Dauphin and Duke of Burgundy), French vacillation allowed the allies to cross the Schelde River here in sufficient numbers to defeat them.

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Wheel of former canal lock on Quai au Brics in downtown Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe. This former dock on the Senne River, since filled in, is a popular location for restaurants serving fish, oysters, and lobster.

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Busy city street near Grand Place in Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Busy city street near Grand Place in Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Port of Antwerp (Anvers) in 1520. After drawing by Albrecht Durer.

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A nest built by wild South American monk parakeets atop a power pole in Place Guy d'Arezzo in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium, Europe. First let into the wild around 1979, these parakeets have rested here unmolested ever since.

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Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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Bronze statues of horses atop the Cinquantenaire monument in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, at sunset. The grandiose monument, erected by King Leopold II and financed by his plundering of Central Africa, celebrated Belgium's 50-year jubilee in 1880.

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Bronze statues of horses and pipers atop the Cinquantenaire monument in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, at sunset. The grandiose monument, erected by King Leopold II and financed by his plundering of Central Africa, celebrated Belgium's 50-year jubilee in 1880.

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Eglise de la Chapelle (Kapellekerk) at sunset in Marolles district of Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe. Breughel the Elder is buried here.

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Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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Wall on the Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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A bowling alley built into an ancient medieval tower from the vanished city walls of Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe.

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Wall on the Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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Wall on the Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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Wall on the Senne River in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, just before it goes underground. Famously polluted, the river was buried in the 19th century and replaced by the Albert and Charleroi canals.

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At sunset, shadows create a jagged shadow across the guild hall of the brewers on the Grand Place in Brussels, Region Capitale, Belgium, Europe. The smaller building on the right is maison du Cigne, one of the most expensive restaurants in Belgium, and ironically the place where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed The Communist Manifesto and founded the first German Workers Party.

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At sunrise, shadows cover the guild hall of the brewers on the Grand Place in Brussels, Region Capitale, Belgium, Europe. The smaller building on the right is maison du Cigne, one of the most expensive restaurants in Belgium, and ironically the place where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed The Communist Manifesto and founded the first German Workers Party.

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Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Nunnery, Religion, Historic Brugge, Sanctuaries, Nuns.Convent.

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Triumphant statue of Godfried de Bouillion, the first so-called King of Jerusalem, on Place Royale in Brussels, Region Capitale, Belgium, Europe. In 1201 on this site, Godfried first raised his standard to incite the attending crowds into joining him on the 1st Crusade.

Theater, Antwerp, Belgium, building.

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Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Godhuis

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Steel-worker housing at Grand-Hornu, a closed locomotive works in the purpose-built town of Hornu, Mons-Borinage, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe

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Ruined steel-worker housing at Grand-Hornu, a closed locomotive works in the purpose-built town of Hornu, Mons-Borinage, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe

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Steel-worker housing at Grand-Hornu, a closed locomotive works in the purpose-built town of Hornu, Mons-Borinage, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe

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Steel-worker housing at Grand-Hornu, a closed locomotive works in the purpose-built town of Hornu, Mons-Borinage, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe

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Students take a class at Grand-Hornu, a closed steel plant and locomotive works in the purpose-built town of Hornu, Mons-Borinage, Hainaut, Walloon Region, Belgium, Europe

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Rose bushes grow over crosses at Enclos des Fusilles, a tiny cemetery for fallen resistance heroes, in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium, Europe. On 12.10.1915, when this was the Tir National, or national rifle range, Edith Cavell was brought here and executed by the German occupation authorities for espionage.

Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Gables, Building, Brickwork, Style, Facades

Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Gables, Building, Brickwork, Style, Facades

Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Gables, Building, Brickwork, Style, Facades

Belgium, Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Gables, Building, Brickwork, Style, Facades