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The châteaux of Wallonia (Belgium) in the Index — 3 so far, each fact-checked against the historical record. Back to the map.

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Château de Chimay
Wallonia (Belgium) · Hainaut

Château de Chimay

Medieval origins; rebuilt repeatedly, latterly after the 1935 fire · Composite — medieval base, classical and revival rebuilding

Seat of the Princes de Chimay for five centuries, perched above the Eau Blanche in Belgium's Hainaut. Madame Tallien — Thérésa Cabarrus, 'Notre-Dame de Thermidor' — ended her days here as Princesse de Chimay, and the château's jewel is its intimate 19th-century theatre, still in use. Rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1935, it remains the family's home.

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Château de Vêves
Wallonia (Belgium) · Namur

Château de Vêves

15th century (on 13th-century base) · Fairy-tale turreted castle

Five pepper-pot towers on a rocky knoll near Celles — often called Belgium's most beautiful castle, and the very image of the fairy-tale keep. It has passed by inheritance, never by sale, within the Beaufort and Liedekerke-Beaufort line for some seven centuries, and the family still uses it.

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Château de Modave
Wallonia (Belgium) · Liège

Château de Modave

Rebuilt 1650s–1670s · 17th-century château on a cliff

Perched sixty metres above the Hoyoux on a limestone cliff, rebuilt in the grand 17th-century manner with celebrated Hansche stuccoes. Here in 1668 the carpenter Rennequin Sualem built a water-raising wheel to feed the château — the direct prototype of the gigantic Machine de Marly that would water Versailles.

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