六大世界遗产运河 6 Canal World Heritages
遗产名称:拉卢维耶尔和勒罗尔克斯中央运河上的四座船舶升降机及其周边设施(埃诺省)(比利时)
Name: The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut) (Belgium)
入选时间:1998年
Date of Inscription: 1998

(拉卢维耶尔和勒罗尔克斯中央运河的四座船舶升降机)
(The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre, La Louvière and Le Roeulx)
中央运河负责连接比利时东西向的两条大河,挡在运河中央的是一座高67米的山丘,为了翻越山丘,人们历时35年,建造四个升船机使船舶通过7千米的水道,在极短的距离里提升66.2米高,世界范围内也实属罕见。
The Canal du Centre connects the two major rivers running east-west in Belgium, with a 67-meter-high ridge blocking in between. It took 35 years to build the four enormous hydraulic lifts over the 7-km-long waterway, which, as rare as it is, could raise a barge 66.2 meters high in an extremely short distance.