Heritage registers in Belgium

The agency responsible for keeping and updating inventories of immovable heritage is dependent on the region, as is the name for the object, which is called Beschermd erfgoed, Biens classés or Kulturdenkmal depending on the language of the municipality of the location.

In 1835 the Commission royale des monuments et des sites (Royal committee for monuments and sites) was created to advise the government on conservation and historic preservation.

In the Walloon region, the organization of the European Heritage Days and the classification of objects is done by the Agence wallonne du Patrimoine (AWaP) The German-speaking Community of Belgium, part of the area known as "East Belgium" also hosts the European Heritage Days, and calls them "Tage des offenen Denkmals".

[2] The heritage protection of East Belgium falls under the jurisdiction of Liège province.

[4] The Brussels-Capital Region has their own protection agency called Monuments & Sites (in French: Monuments et sites de l'Administration de l'Aménagement du Territoire et du Logement Ministère de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, and in Dutch: Monumenten en Landschappen van het Bestuur Ruimtelijke Ordening en Huisvesting van het Ministerie Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest).

Emblem of the International Committee of the Blue Shield for marking protected objects per the Hague Convention of 1954 . [ 1 ]
Three administrative districts of Belgium: Flanders in the North, Wallonia in the South, and Brussels in the middle
Beschermd erfgoed plaque on the museum of René de Clercq 's birthplace in Deerlijk . On the left, the blue & white logo has the overlaid text "Beschermd Monument". Below that are the logo of the Flemish tourist bureau, the white lion of Flanders and bottom right, the flag of the town of Deerlijk.