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Newsletter 05 2024
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Get on board the Grand-Hornu train
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The Grand-Hornu is part of the Europalia Trains and Tracks programme. Join the platform from October 17 and get on board the train of the past that will take you on an extraordinary railroad, the first one in Belgium, the first one in Europe, the horse-drawn railway from 1830 signed by Henri De Gorge.
The Grand-Hornu train offers you stops tinged with history, innovation and poetry through a historical conference, guided tours, a walk and a podcast. Celebrate the Grand-Hornu railway with us until May 2022!
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Grand-Hornu: a historical conference
Europalia Trains & Tracks
17 October 2021
"Chronology of an avant-garde project, the De Gorge railway in Hornu"The history books record that the first Belgian railway was ...
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Europalia Trains & Tracks
The Grand-Hornu : On the tracks of its railway
Europalia Trains & Tracks
01 May 2022
© Marcel Capouillez
Every first Sunday from November to May, le Grand-Hornu invites you to discover its railway heritage during thematic guided tours.From the first ...
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Europalia Trains & Tracks
A walk in the tracks of the Grand-Hornu railway

23 April 2022
© Marcel Capouillez
Did you know that in 1830, Henri De Gorge, founder of le Grand-Hornu, inaugurated the first horse-drawn railway in Belgium and one of the first in ...
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Site du Grand-Hornu
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu — Belgique

Ouvert du mardi au dimanche
de 10h00 à 18h00.

The npo CID - centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu is subsidised by the Province of Hainaut.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation – Visual Arts Sector.