Visit Genk: Travel Guide to the Best Attractions in Belgium
Visit Genk, a town in Belgium in the Limburg province! Known to have some history rooted in Celtic culture, the once small village of Genk was converted to Christianity in the tenth century. First named Geneche, the town had small beginnings and wasn’t formally a city until the year 2000, Genk wasn’t really known until the early 1900s when a good quantity of coal was discovered in the region. It wasn’t long before the coal miners came to Genk for work. The city soon grew with the mass movement of immigrants, and when the coal drive finally settled in the …