Franc-Waret Castle

The Chateau de Franc-Waret is a chateau situated in Franc-Waret inside the municipality of Fernelmont within the province of Namur, Belgium. A moat girdles the castle. The castle is decorated with the aid of French gardens and an English fashion lawn sprawls over 120 hectares of the palace. The interiors are equally august as its exteriors. The indoor decor is conventional seventeenth and 18th century, and is decorated with fixtures, silverware, porcelain and tapestries. There are old books and artwork, a few of them Brueghel's. A ferme-chateau, or huge fortified farmhouse, existed on the site within the thirteenth century. In the sixteenth century the building and the grounds had been obtained and refurbished by means of the de Groesbeeck own family, and later used as their summer season house.

The 16th century block survives, nevertheless with a drawbridge and perspective-towers. Around the middle of the 18th century Alexandre François de Groesbeeck ordered the constructing of a large residential wing in a rural Louis XV style. The complete is surrounded through moats. At the give up of the 18th century the assets exceeded into the possession of the Comtes de Croix, and later of the Comtes d'Andigné who still live there.