Kasteel en Tuinen van Freÿr / Maas (België)

The Gardens

• Starting in 1760, the Renaissance gardens were redrawn in classical style inviting to meditation by canon William of Beaufort-Spontin.
• They release a captivating atmosphere when looking at the grass-beds under the shadow of the lime trees, while listening to the peaceful song of the fountains,
• and breathing the fragrance of the orangetrees, most of which originated from the Court of Lorraine and are nearing 350 years.
• In winter, these trees are kept in the oldest orangeries of the Low Countries.
• Starting in 1770, Philip, youngest brother of William, enlarged the gardens by drawing a second major axis perpendicular to the Meuse and terraced on the hillside up to the Frederic Hall, a small Belvedere, Rococo masterwork with refined stuccos of the Brothers Moretti.
• This second axis unfolds a garden in the style of Le Nôtre,
• and surrounded by intimist mazes (6km) made of hornbeam hedges.