Urban Explorer / Decay Explorer
During a holiday trip in the Belgian Ardennes, on our way to the beautiful city of Durbuy, we passed this abandoned building. There is not much information to be found about this urbex location, but what I know is that it used to be a small hotel.
Read more and view images…Villa Bom (BE) – A formely hotel, somewhere in the Belgian Ardennes
This originally was a mental hospital which was run by a religious order.
Read more and view images…Salve Mater (BE) – Psychiatric Clinic, founded in 1920
Fort de la Chartreuse was built to defend the Belgian city of Liege. It was built by the Dutch in 1817 at Mont Cornillon and came after the Belgian Revolution in 1830 in the hands of the Belgians.
Read more and view images…Fort de la Chartreuse (BE) – A famous abandoned army base
The castle domain Nottebohm comprises an area of over 58 hectares, within the center an abandoned villa, built in 1908-1909 by the family Nottebohm from Antwerp. Château Nottebohm served as a country retreat for the family and was regularly inhabited until 1943.
Read more and view images…Château Nottebohm (BE) – Abandoned castle in Belgium
This abandoned castle with chapel was founded in 1876 by the wealthy Antwerp shipowner Frans Huger. It is located in a park with century-old beech and chestnut trees. Today nothing remains of the beautiful place that nineteenth-century Goorhof was under the previous owners.
Read more and view images…Château Goorhof at Grobbendonk, Belgium – Abandoned Castle
Vanaf 1855 werden er in Europa talloze sanatoria opgericht voor de behandeling van tbc, in de volksmond ook wel de ‘tering’ genoemd.
Het Sanatorium du Basil kenmerkt zich niet alleen door de mooie ligging en prachtig uitzicht, maar ook door de unieke architectuur. De bouw ging van start omstreeks 1900 en het sanatorium opende zijn deuren in 1903. Ondanks dat het gebouw reeds enkele jaren leegstaat is het nog steeds in wonderbaarlijk goede staat. Binnen is het nagenoeg leeg, maar er is slechts een minimum aan vandalisme en graffiti
