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Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Designed by architect Victor Horta, one of the early founders of the Art Nouveau movement, four major buildings in Brussels – the Hotel Tassel, the Hotel Solvay, the Hotel Van Eetveld and the Horta House and Studio – are among the most striking avant-garde works of architecture at the end of the 19th century. Representing a stylistic revolution, these buildings are characterized by open plans, diffused light and a clever integration of decorative curves into the building structure.
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
The four sites of the site form a strip 170 km long and 3-15 km wide across Belgium from east to west and are the best preserved 19th and 20th century coal mining sites in the country. It features examples of early utopian architecture from the European Industrial Age, a highly integrated industrial and urban complex, notably the Grand-Horneau coal mine and workers' city designed by Bruno Renard in the first half of the 19th century. Bois-du-Luc includes many buildings built between 1838 and 1909, as well as one of the oldest coal mines in Europe, dating back to the late 17th century. While there are hundreds of coal mines in Wallonia, most have lost their infrastructure, while the four components of the site have retained a high degree of integrity.
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
This collection of 111 small, individual sites includes remains of prehistoric pile dwellings (or stilt dwellings) in and around the Alps, built around 5000-500 BC, on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. Excavations at only some of the sites have provided evidence that provides insights into life and how communities interacted with their environment during the Neolithic and Bronze Age prehistory of Alpine Europe. 56 of the sites are located in Switzerland. These settlements are a unique group of archaeological sites, well-preserved and culturally rich, and are one of the most important sources for studying early agricultural societies in the region.
Bryggen
Bryggen is Bergen's old wharf, a reminder of the town's importance as part of the Hanseatic League trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Bryggen has suffered from fires several times, the most recent in 1955, which destroyed Bryggen's characteristic timber houses. Its reconstruction followed traditional patterns and methods, so its main structure has been preserved, a remnant of the old timber-framed urban architecture that was once common in Northern Europe. Today, about 62 buildings remain in this former townscape.