Touring Belgium presents a wide range of printed media from travel guides and collected letters to albums, from picture postcards to bibliographies and war-time propaganda to explore how the print culture developing in the wake of travel and tourism helped to establish a national architectural heritage. Covering material from the period of Belgian independence through the aftermath of World War I, eight historians of art and architecture each situate one main publication against a dazzling background of nineteenth and early twentieth-century cultural discourses, revolutions in image reproduction, and emerging heritage management. Reproductions in the middle part of the book present the core publications as material objects. These printed artifacts bring into view a nascent heritage that ranges from gothic town halls and dead cities to modern factories and railroad infrastructure; often there is little distinction between what threatens or enshrines the national patrimony. Writers like Schnaase and Hugo, museum conservators like Schayes and Kervyn de Lettenhove, symbolist painters like Hannotiau, innovative lithographers like Simonau, and publishers like G ruzet or the Touring-club de Belgique all bring their concerns to bear on what they see as Belgian heritage. Their preoccupations with patrimony help to craft Belgium as a nation with a history at the crossroads of Europe ? historic architecture becomes a reality embedded in the territory as much as an imagery fabricated in print. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Aspects of Print Culture, Heritage, and Tourism in Belgium, 1830?1920 Maarten Delbeke, Maarten Liefooghe Karl Schnaase?s Niederl ndische Briefe (1834). An Art Historical Journey Through the Low Countries in the Year of the Belgian Revolution Henrik Karge Printing and Collecting Architectural History in Belgium (1830?1860). Antoine Schayes and ?L?arch ologie nationale? Ellen Van Impe Composite Belgium. The Guide du touriste en Belgique of 1845 and French Travel Writing in the First Two Decades of Belgian Independence Maarten Delbeke Prospects of Belgique Industrielle (1855). A Picturesque Garden as Production Facility David Peleman Catalog Beatriz Van Houtte Alonso Alexandre Hannotiau?s Picture Postcard Series A Bruges (1900). Between Symbolism and the Picturesque Stefan Huygebaert Tourists in the Restoration Debate. A Bibliography of Belgian Heritage (1903) by the Touring Club de Belgique Jasper Van Parys Outcry Over Belgium, Vandalized Museum. Henri Kervyn de Lettenhove?s La guerre et les ?uvres d?art en Belgique (1917) Maarten Liefooghe Michelin?s Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields of the Yser and the Belgian Coast (1920). Guidebook, Field Manual, or Architectural Compendium? Willem Bekers Bibliography Index Biographies