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Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh have built a see through church in the Borgloon (Limburg, Belgium). They named it as “Reading between the lines”. The church is about 10 meters high and is constructed from 100 stacked layers of weathered steel plates. Gaps between these plates allow us to see through the walls. [Source]

Amazing See through Church

Miranda Castle, also known as Noisy Castle is a 19th-century castle in Celles, province of Namur, Belgium, in the region of the Ardennes. Their descendants remained in occupation until World War II, when it was taken over by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS) as an orphanage. It remained a facility for the use of children until 1980. The castle was built in 1866 by the English architect Milner under commission from the Liedekerke-Beaufort family. [Wiki]

Amazing Miranda Castle

The Atomium is an iconic building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn with interiors by architects André and Jean Polak. Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose escalators and a lift to allow access to the five habitable spheres which contain exhibit halls and other public spaces. it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (59 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. [Wiki]

Amazing Atomium, Belgium

In 1146, twelve Cistercian monks and three lay brothers from Clairvaux came to Villers in order to establish the abbey on land granted them by Gauthier de Marbais. Villers Abbey (abbaye de Villers) is an ancient Cistercian abbey located in the town of Villers-la-Ville in the Walloon Brabant province of Wallonia (Belgium. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the abbey's fortunes continued to diminish. The number of monks and the abbey's wealth dwindled and it was finally abandoned in 1796 in the wake of the French Revolution.
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Abandoned Villers Abbey

The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium, dates mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Its tower, at 122.3 meters in height. The altarpiece of the large chapel in the southern aisle enshrines the most celebrated art treasure of the church—a white marble sculpture of the Madonna and Child created by Michelangelo around 1504. [Wiki]

Church of Our Lady, Bruges

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