Charleroi Travel Guide

Charleroi is the largest city and municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Charleroi had a total population of 201,300. The agglomeration has a population of around 500,000 inhabitants, which makes it the fifth largest agglomeration of the country. The inhabitants are called Carolorégiens or simply Carolos. The municipality features an industrial area, iron and steel industry, glassworks, chemicals, and electrical engineering. Charleroi is in the center of a vast coal basin, called Pays noir. Many slag heaps still surround the city. Charleroi is also known for its publishing industry with Dupuis, one of the main publishers of Franco-Belgian comics, located in Marcinelle.

There's an airport in the city where you can fly with cheap airlines to most parts of Europe. It's approximately 1 hour distance from Brussels. The airport is small , very crowded in holiday seasons and not well organized, with confusing queuing lines. But that's the art of budget traveling :)   

"meeees couilles", voila ce dont vous vous rapellerez en quittant charleroi!! La ville noire, colorée par des monuments en polyéthurène (ou une matière en plastoc quelleconque) de dessin animés etc... A VOIR MDR!!