Editing Charleroi (section)

==Culture==

===Museums===
[[File:Charleroi - Musée des Beaux-arts - 2022-12-27 - 02.jpg|thumb|The Musée des Beaux-Arts]]
[[File:Charleroi musee-de-la-photographie 050711.jpg|thumb|Musée de la photographie]]
[[File:Bois du Cazier in Marcinelle, Charleroi (DSCF7718).jpg|thumb|The Bois du Cazier]]

* Musée de la photographie, opened in 1987, is housed in a former [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] [[Carmelites|Carmelite monastery]]. It is the largest photography museum in Europe, featuring a diverse collection and hosting various exhibitions in [[Mont-sur-Marchienne]]
* Musée des Chasseurs à pied, located in the former Corporal Tresignie barracks (named after Léon Trésignies, a Belgian hero of [[World War I]]), is a military museum.
* BPS22, art museum of the [[Hainaut Province|Hainaut province]] installed in a former industrial hall built during the Charleroi exhibition in 1911, in which training was provided for industrial professions.
* [[Bois du Cazier]], in [[Marcinelle]]
* Musée des Beaux-Arts ("Museum of Fine Arts"), is housed in a former cavalry barracks. This historic building was transformed to showcase a diverse collection of artworks, like [[François-Joseph Navez]], Gustave Camus and [[Pierre Paulus]]. It is located near the Tour Bleue created by [[Jean Nouvel]].

===Theatres and dance hall===
* [[Charleroi Danses]]
* Théâtre de l'Ancre

===Performance halls and cultural centers===
* Rockerill, alternative concert hall, exhibition space and performances located in [[Marchienne-au-Pont]]
* Vecteur, multidisciplinary cultural platform
* Eden, performance hall

===Media===
* [[Dupuis|Éditions Dupuis]], comic and magazines publisher located in [[Marcinelle]]
* Telesambre, regional television channel
* La Nouvelle Gazette, a Belgian French-language daily newspaper

===Folklore events===
* The [[Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse]] : every year, from May to October, the Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse, both a religious procession and a folk march, take place in [[Jumet]] (Tour de la Madeleine) and in the region south of Charleroi, which bring together many walkers parading in costumes of [[First French Empire|First Empire]] and [[Third French Empire|Third Empire]] uniform. In 2012, fifteen of these marches were recognised as masterpieces of the [[UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists|Oral and Intangible Heritage by UNESCO]].<ref>{{cite web |language = fr |author = Patrick Lemaire | title = Quinze marches de l'Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse admises au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'Unesco |trans-title=Fifteen marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse admitted to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage |url= https://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20121205_00240949 |publisher = www.lavenir.net |newspaper = L'Avenir (Belgium) |date = 5 December 2012 |access-date = 2 May 2020}}</ref>
* The [[Mardi Gras]] carnival with the release of the giants puppets and the parade of the Climbias, a folk and charity club in [[Lodelinsart]].
* The [[Easter]] and [[Assumption of Mary|August]] fairs.
* The Sunday market.

===Itineraries, tours===
[[File:Dampremy - Terril Saint-Théodore est - 2021-03-28 - 3.jpg|thumb|The Saint-Théodore [[Spoil tip|slag heap]]. A walkway of the Boucle Noire.]]

* Boucle Noire ("Black Loop"), a 26&nbsp;km walk between the industrial and natural landscape of Charleroi<ref>{{Cite web |title=GR412 - Boucle noire |url=https://www.cm-tourisme.be/en/a/gr412-boucle-noire |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=CM Tourisme |language=en}}</ref>
* Grande dérive ("Big Drift") : this path forms a 54&nbsp;km loop surrounding the greater Charleroi. La Grande Dérive, passes through the green margins of Charleroi, on marked trails, climbing on the slag heaps and crossing public parks, woods, agricultural areas and wasteland.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=28 May 2023|title=Grande Dérive|url=https://cheminsdesterrils.be/#grandederive|website=Chemin des terrils}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* Eurovelo 3 pilgrims' route : Charleroi is located on the EuroVelo3 route. It is a 5,122&nbsp;km long road that connects [[Trondheim]] in [[Norway]] to [[Santiago de Compostela]] in [[Spain]]. The route thus crosses seven countries, Norway, [[Sweden]], [[Denmark]], [[Germany]], Belgium, [[France]] and Spain.
* In the Charleroi region, the [[RAVeL network]] (in French Réseau Autonome des Voies Lentes and in English autonomous network of slow ways) allows cycling for sports and tourism purposes on protected routes. The routes take the towpaths along the river Sambre and the Charleroi-Brussels canal and on disused railway lines.