Walking kilometers without encountering a living soul: 10,000 steps through World Heritage.

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Once there were hundreds of vagrants living here. Today you can walk for miles without encountering a living soul. The Colony of Wortel (Hoogstraten) is a World Heritage site, recognized by UNESCO as a ‘cultural landscape created by humans’. Guide Marleen Dufraing (69) shows us around.

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