Exploring Charbonnage No.10 & Domaine du Celly

Hidden in the quiet decay of Belgium’s post-industrial landscape lie the crumbling relics of two vastly different pasts. Charbonnage No.10, once a thriving coal mine, now stands as a skeletal monument to the country's industrial heyday. Steel frameworks twist with rust, conveyor belts sag with time, and shafts plunge into the earth like forgotten veins. Silence has replaced the thunder of machines, but the air still holds stories of sweat and coal dust.

A world away in purpose but not in spirit, Domaine du Celly, an abandoned military sanitarium, rests in ghostly stillness. Once a place of healing for soldiers, its peeling walls and sun-dappled corridors echo with the whispers of convalescence and command. File cabinets lie scattered like relics of a war no longer fought, while nature quietly reclaims the tiled halls.

These sites are more than ruins. They are time capsules, poetic remnants of resilience, labor, and loss. Urbex reveals not just what has been abandoned, but what still lingers.