Parc du Bois-du-Luc La Louviere

Bois-du-Luc in Houdeng-Aimeries, a sub-municipality of La Louviere, is one of the four Walloon mining sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The site preserves an exceptionally complete 19th-century mining ensemble: the mine shafts themselves, the management offices, the workers' housing, the hospital, the church and the school. The ecomuseum tells the story of four generations of miners and their families.

The visitor centre wing and the reception areas are barrier-free. The museum offers an adapted visitor route along which you can roll through the main exhibition without stairs. The outdoor route through the workers' village partly runs over historic cobbled streets — bumpy but passable for manual wheelchairs. On request, the site organises guided tours with attention to accessibility and adapted routes that avoid the most difficult surfaces. Adapted toilets are available.

Disabled parking spaces are right next to the visitor centre on Rue Saint-Patrice. La Louviere has an easily reached station with adapted assistance. Combine with a visit to Keramis, the ceramics museum, or the boat-lift complex on the Canal du Centre, also UNESCO World Heritage. Allow half a day for the mining-site visit.