Visit : Castle Park, Park/Garden

PARK OF ATTRE CASTLE

Address:

Avenue du Château 8
7941 ATTRE (BRUGELETTE)Belgium
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Opening Dates
- from Monday 1 April 2013 to Sunday 30 June 2013
  - Sunday and Public Holydays : 14:00-17:00
- from Monday 1 July 2013 to Saturday 31 August 2013
  - SAT, SUN and public holidays : 14:00-17:00

A ravishing 18th century manor house, the Chateau d'Attre was built on the foundations of a mediaeval fortress. The Archduchess Marie-Christine of Austria and her husband Albert de Saxe Teschen, governors of the southern Netherlands, often stayed here. Combining French and Austrian styles, the chateau is set in a very fine 17 hectare estate bordering on the Dendre. Both landscaped garden and forest park, it contains melancholy features such as the ruined Belvedere tower, the 15th century dovecote, the hermitage, the Vignou tower, the Swiss chalet, the bath house etc., as well as various constructions in the taste of the period such as "le Rocher", a 24 metre high artificial grotto surmounted by a hunting platform built for the use of Marie-Christine and her husband.

Exceptional Listed Monument of Wallonia.
Also open on public holidays from 1 April to 31 October.
For groups of minimum 20 persons: daily from 1 April to 31 October by reservation.
Possibility to only visit the park (price: € 3,50.).
Last visit of the castle at 5 pm.
Guided tours: castle tour always guided (French, Dutch, English).

E19 motorway (Brussels - Mons), exit 21, A8, E429 (Halle-Rijsel/Lille), exit 29. Turn left (Ath-Ghislenghien). Straight ahead at the lights, turn right 100 m further, arrival after 6 km.