The cycling experience begins at be-MINE unusually strong. Along the experience bike path, cyclists can cycle under the coal washes, just as coal cars used to do. Visitors immediately see the grandeur of the building complex: cyclists pedal under more than 10,000sqm of covered outdoor space, among a forest of concrete columns on which the immense building rests.
It is the beginning of a bicycle tour through Limburg’s mining history, as be-MINE is the most westerly mining site in Limburg and is also the first mining site that visitors from the directions of Antwerp or Brussels will encounter. It is therefore no coincidence that be-MINE is being given the function of a gateway from which visitors can discover Limburg’s mining history. So it can also be done by bicycle via the coal railroad, the physical bicycle connection that in the future will connect all mining settlements. Cyclists can already grease their calves as they can cycle from Beringen to Maasmechelen, which is even longer than the Belgian coast.