Bois du Luc

a must to see when you are in the Borinage/centre region

We visited with a group of 20, the guide was fluent in English ( and Dutch) and was extremely good. He not only talked about the obvious things to see ( well worth the visit) but gave a lot of histori...

Excellent Audio Guide and an Interesting Place

There is something a bit odd about visiting a museum that actually includes real people’s houses. The first part of the tour walks you through the mining village and many of the houses are occupied. H...

Main site closed

We visited on a cold November weekend. The visitors' centre was open and we were allowed to walk around, just didn't get to see anything inside. It's part of the coal mining World heritage site and mi...

COAL MINING MADE INTERESTING

This is one of four properties which comprise mining sites in the Wallonia region of Belgium. It took 1.75 hours to hear the insightful audiotape and visit the necessary locations. Even though this pa...

Industrial heritage at its best

The old mines and the miners' village are well preserved. If you are lucky to get one of the guides (Jeff or Alain) you will be told with full passion the story of the mine, the children working there...