The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut) World Heritage Site

Official name

The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut) | UNESCO

Country

Belgium | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

50.4811° Lat, 4.1372° Lon | Map

Code

856

Time Zone

Europe/Brussels (CET, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1998. The four hydraulic boat-lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are industrial monuments of the highest quality. Together with the canal itself and its associated structures, they constitute a remarkably well-preserved and complete example of a late-19th-century industrial landscape. Of the eight hydraulic boat-lifts built at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the only ones in the world which still exist in their original working condition are these four lifts on the Canal du Centre.