National Heritage Site (Belgium)
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Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
of Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
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Three heritage organizations
In 1835 the Commission royale des monuments et des sites (Royal committee for National Heritage SiteNational Heritage Site
A National Heritage Site is a location/site that regards a building, monument, archeological, geographical,natural or topological feature having a large value that has been registered by a governmental agency of a particular country...
s) was created to advise the government on conservation and historic preservation. This committee was split in 1968 into a Flanders committee (Koninklijke Commissie voor Monumenten en Landschappen) and a Wallonian committee, and in 1993 a third committee was formed to administer the area of Brussels.
Walloon Region
In the Walloon region, the organization of the European Heritage DaysEuropean Heritage Days
European Heritage Days is a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission involving all 50 signatory states of the European Cultural Convention under the motto, Europe: a common heritage. The annual programme offers opportunities to visit buildings, monuments and sites, many of...
is done by the Institut du Patrimoine
Institut du Patrimoine
The Institut du Patrimoine wallon is the official public Wallonian institute created by law to protect and spread awareness of Belgian cultural heritage, specifically in Wallonia....
. The classification of objects is done by the Department of Spatial planning.
East Belgium
The German-speaking Community of BelgiumGerman-speaking Community of Belgium
The German-speaking Community of Belgium is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km² within the province of Liège in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons...
, part of the area known as "East Belgium" also hosts the European Heritage Days, and calls them "Tage des offenen Denkmals". The heritage protection of East Belgium falls under the jurisdiction of Liège province.
Heritage lists of Wallonia
- List of protected heritage sites in Hainaut (province)
- List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province)
- List of protected heritage sites in Luxembourg (Belgium)
- List of protected heritage sites in Namur (province)
- List of protected heritage sites in Walloon-Brabant
Flanders
In Flanders, the European Heritage Days are organized by the Erfgoedhuis Den Wolsack in Antwerp, which is also where Erfgoed Vlaanderen meets.Three organizations are responsible for protection; the Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed, the Organization for KCML. Ruimte en Erfgoed, Onroerend Erfgoed, and the agent for inspection, the RWO.
Heritage lists of Flanders
- List of beschermd erfgoed in Antwerpen (province)
- List of beschermd erfgoed in Limburg (Belgische province)
- List of beschermd erfgoed in Oost-Vlaanderen
- List of beschermd erfgoed in Vlaams-Brabant
- List of beschermd erfgoed in West-Vlaanderen