Villers-sur-Semois Castle
Villers-sur-Semois Castle | |
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Étalle, Wallonia, Belgium | |
Type | Castle |
Villers-sur-Semois Castle is a castle in Villers-sur-Semois in the municipality of Étalle in the province of Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium.
It once contained the château du Maître of Henri Henriquez, who become lord of the village in 1709. In 1712, he obtained permission to divert the Semois for sanitation reasons, at which point he built a castle which remained his residence until 1730. It is a quadrilateral next to a ten metre tall octagonal tower and a castle chapel, which is where his sister married. In the west, the castle had agricultural buildings, built during the middle of the 19th century. It was used by growers until the 200s. Le site historique est voué a devenir une salle de fête, un gîtes et un salon de coiffure. [citation needed]
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