Centre de délassement, Leisure center in Marcinelle, Belgium

The Centre de délassement (officially Centre social de délassement Edmond Leburton) straddles Charleroi and Gerpinnes in the bois du Prince. Its 14-hectare plan by coordinating architect Jacques Depelsenaire, with Jacques Dupuis and Willy Van Gils, produced a youth centre, a nautical centre and a restaurant, plus six tennis courts and a minigolf. The nautical centre's outdoor deck holds a long lane-divided pool, a circular pool with white slides and a light-blue funnel marked by a yellow circle, and a tapering light-blue band, all set in striped paving.

In the early 1950s alderman Lucien Harmegnies sought to protect 150 hectares of green space in the Bois du Prince from urbanisation. Edmond Leburton, health minister from 1954 to 1958, launched a study for an open-air recreation centre there. Coordinator Jacques Depelsenaire worked with Jacques Dupuis and Willy Van Gils on a plan for about 14 hectares; a six-court tennis club, a minigolf and three buildings (youth centre, water centre, restaurant) followed between 1958 and the early 1970s. The water centre was restored in 2010–2014 by the collective RESERVOIR A.

The centre is officially named Centre social de délassement Edmond Leburton, after the health minister who launched the study for it in the 1950s. It straddles the communes of Charleroi and Gerpinnes, and its youth centre, aquatic centre and restaurant were built between 1958 and the early 1970s.

The facility has six tennis courts, multiple playgrounds, parking for cars and buses, and allows pets throughout the grounds. Visitors can explore the site on foot as pathways connect the different areas.

The site straddles two municipalities, Charleroi and Gerpinnes, so the ponds and woods lie partly outside Marcinelle itself. In 2011 a plan to turn the grounds into a comic-strip theme park was studied, then dropped in 2013 after a feasibility report found it could not be built.