Borinage
The Borinage is an area in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium. The name derives from the coal mines of the region, bores, meaning mineshafts in local dialect.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region
- Description: area in Belgium
- Also known as: “Le Borinage”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand-Hornu and Saint-Ghislain railway station.
Grand-Hornu
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Grand-Hornu is an old industrial coal mining complex and company town in Hornu, near Mons, in Belgium. It was built by Henri De Gorge between 1810 and 1830.
Saint-Ghislain railway station
Railway station
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Saint-Ghislain railway station is situated 3 km north of Borinage.
Cimetière d’Hornu
Cemetery
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cimetière d’Hornu is a cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wasmes and Colfontaine.
Wasmes
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
Wasmes is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Colfontaine, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In January 1879 Vincent van Gogh temporarily moved to the village, in the hamlet of Petit Wasmes, to take up a post as missionary.
Colfontaine
Town
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
Colfontaine is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006, the municipality had 20,021 inhabitants. The total area is 13.62 km. The municipality consists of the following districts: Pâturages, Warquignies, Wasmes.
Borinage
- Category: cultural area
- Location: Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Walloon—“Borinage” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Borinage”
- Breton: “Borinage”
- Catalan: “Borinage”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆریناج”
- Chinese: “博里纳日”
- Czech: “Borinage”
- Danish: “Borinage”
- Dutch: “Borinage”
- Esperanto: “Borinage”
- French: “Borinage”
- German: “Borinage”
- Greek: “Μπορινάζ”
- Haitian: “Borinaj”
- Hebrew: “בורינאז‘”
- Hebrew: “בורינאז’”
- Indonesian: “Borinage”
- Irish: “Borinage”
- Italian: “Borinage”
- Japanese: “ボリナージュ”
- Picard: “Borinage”
- Portuguese: “Borinage”
- Slovak: “Borinage”
- Swedish: “Borinage”
- Turkish: “Borinage”
- Walloon: “Borinaedje”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Petit Wasmes and Warquignies.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Grand Hornu and Bois de l’Évêque.
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