Château de Waleffe

Faimes, Belgium, Belgium

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Château de Waleffe (more precisely Château de Waleffe Saint-Pierre) is an 18th-century pleasure house in Les Waleffes, a village in the municipality of Faimes in the province of Liège, Belgium, listed as a major Walloon Heritage site and as part of the exceptional heritage of Wallonia.

It was built between 1706 and 1711 on the remains of an older feudal castle by Blaise-Henri de Corte, a descendant of the wealthy Liège industrialist Jean de Corte (Curtius), with the design attributed to the French ornemaniste Daniel Marot and the execution by the engineer J. Verniole.

The castle follows the classic “Mosan” type of riverside aristocratic residence: a central residential block with symmetrical wings on the courtyard side and smaller projecting wings on the garden side, surrounded by a large park redesigned in the 19th century with a bicentennial bower, an avenue of lime trees, lawns and parterres en broderie decorated with 18th-century terracotta sculptures.

The interior is magnificently preserved and furnished with period furniture, tapestries and original paintings, giving the salons a sumptuous atmosphere inspired by the taste of the 17th century, while the castle’s tower houses guest rooms decorated with antique instruments and other historic objects.