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The Kingdom of Belgium accepted the convention on 24 July 1996, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] Belgium has 16 sites inscribed on the list. The first sites to be added to the list were the Flemish Béguinages, the Grand-Place in Brussels and the lifts on the Canal du Centre, at the 22nd UNESCO session in 1998 ...
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) (53 P) Pages in category "World Heritage Sites in Belgium" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Roman sites in Belgium (3 P) T. Treasure troves in Belgium (1 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Belgium"
World Heritage Sites in Belgium (1 C, 49 P) Pages in category "Historic sites in Belgium" This category contains only the following page.
Three administrative districts of Belgium: Flanders in the North, Wallonia in the South, and Brussels in the middle. In 1835 the Commission royale des monuments et des sites (Royal committee for monuments and sites) was created to advise the government on conservation and historic preservation.
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [ a ] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings ( castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes ( châteaux , manor houses or country houses ).
Historic sites in Belgium (5 C, 1 P) M. Monuments and memorials in Belgium (6 C, 21 P) P. Protected heritage sites in Belgium (5 C, 22 P) T. Towers in Belgium (5 C, 13 P)
The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in the former County of Flanders (present-day French Flanders area of France and Flanders region of Belgium ...