Kasteel en Tuinen van Freÿr / Maas (België)

Introduction

• Outstanding premises (castle and gardens) Exceptional Heritage of Southern Belgium, located along the Meuse, surrounded by a wild and untouched nature, opposite to rocks (paradise of alpinists) looking down upon the river.
• From the 14th century until today, 20 generations of direct descendants have developed here an enchanting atmosphere.
• After the destruction of the medieval castle (1554) by the Duke of Nevers, a Renaissance country house was built, and later enlarged into a four wings building with an inner yard (early 17th). Two gardens located along the river flanked the house.
• In the middle of the 18th the castle was refitted to assume its new function as the summer ducal residence of the Beaufort-Spontins, while the gardens were refashioned and enlarged.
• This complex still inhabited, that three Ladies brought to their husbands, is now in the hand of a Foundation.