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Belgium ratified the World Heritage Convention on 24 July, 1996. As of August 2010, it has ten World Heritage Sites, all in the Cultural category. Belgium has submitted another fifteen properties which are presently on the World Heritage Tentative List. Belgium has served on the World Heritage Committee for one term, in 1999-2003.

World Heritage Sites in Belgium

    Cultural
  1. Flemish Béguinages (1998)
  2. La Grand-Place, Brussels (1998)
  3. The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault) (1998)
  4. Belfries of Belgium and France (1999)
  5. Historic Centre of Brugge (2000)
  6. Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) (2000)
  7. Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (2000)
  8. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai (2000)
  9. Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex (2005)
  10. Stoclet House (2009)
Sites in Belgium on the World Heritage Tentative List:
  1. Le noyau historique médiéval ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont á son origine (2002)
  2. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (2002)
  3. Lieux de m&eacture;moire et monuments de la Grande Guerre: le Westhoek et R&eacture;gions voisines (2002)
  4. Leuven/Louvain, bâtiments universitaires, l'h&eacture;ritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (2002)
  5. Maison Guiette, Populierenlaan 32, Antwerpen (2005)
  6. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (2008)
  7. L'œuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (2008)
  8. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (2008)
  9. Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (2008)
  10. Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chauss&eacture;e romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la R&eacture;gion wallonne (2008)
  11. L'ensemble thermal de Spa : de la cure mondaine à la vill&eacture;giature de prestige (2008)
  12. Le palais de Princes Evêques de Liège (2008)
  13. Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l'&eacture;pop&eacture;e napol&eacture;onienne (2008)
  14. Les sites miniers majeurs de Wallonie (2008)
  15. Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Ph&eacture;nomène de Panoramas » (2008)
  16. Les citadelles mosanes (2008)

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