Houdeng-Aimeries

Houdeng-Aimeries is a village in the Belgian municipality of La Louvière in the province of Hainaut. The village contains two UNESCO World Heritage sites; its 16.93 m high boat lift was listed in 1998, together with the other three hydraulic boat lifts on the Canal du Centre near La Louvière,[1] and Bois-du-Luc is a former coal mine today preserved as one of the four Walloon mining sites listed in 2012 under the Major Mining Sites of Wallonia.[2]

The old Canal du Centre at Houdeng-Aimeries (left) and its boat lift (right)
Modern view of the Bois-du-Luc

References
  1. "The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  2. "Major Mining Sites of Wallonia". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
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