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City in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium
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Charleroi, on the river Sambre, is the third largest municipality and fifth-largest city of Belgium. It is in Hainaut province of Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium. A former mining town, it is viewed unfavourably by most Belgians, who often look down on Charleroi as a poor, polluted, derelict, and violent city that is not attractive at all.
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Located in former barracks, this museum is dedicated to the history of the chasseurs, the Belgian rapid-action infantry who played a major and heroic role in the bloody fighting during the First World War. The barracks themselves are named after corporal Léon Trésignies, a chasseur hero of that period.
Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art
Musée de la Photographie
The renowned Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi is housed in the former Carmelite convent in Mont-sur-Marchienne, expanded by the addition of a thoroughly modern annex completed in 2008. It houses extensive collections of all sorts of photography from all periods, exhibiting them both as fixed and temporal exhibitions. Some of them are exhibited on the outside, in the convent's park.
It is an exhibition centre with a year-round programme of themed events
Centre culturel scientifique de l'ULB
A cinema.
French restaurant
African restaurant
In Montigny-le-Tilleul, a neighbouring commune south of Charleroi.
Based in a historic building at the Quai de Flandre, this ibis hotel has an extremely convenient location. Inside, it is a standard ibis outfitted according to the brand's former standards.
Very basic hotel, good for main highway, and with luck you'll arrive not too many weeks after its sporadic clean.
formerly Piersoulx
Convenient mid-range hotel with 20 rooms just north of airport.
The comic strip bookstore with a selection of albums full of Charleroi-born characters.
A mall just northeast of the centre.
By train
Getting there/away: bus line A1 to the airport starts here. When coming out of the main building, keep left to reach the metro and bus stops.
By bus
By public transport
Public transportation in Charleroi is provided by TEC, which is a regional operator responsible for public transit in all of Wallonia.
By bike
Unlike the cities in Flanders, it's rare to see any cyclists at all in Charleroi - by and large the locals prefer to drive everywhere, even though distances are often comparatively short.
By e-scooter
Electric kick scooter sharing is provided by Bolt and Dott.
By taxi
You can also use taxis to travel around in Charleroi.
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Charleroi · International · CRL
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