Fanson Castle

Ferrières, Belgium, Belgium

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Fanson Castle (Château de Fanson) is a private, historic castle located in the village of Xhoris, which forms part of the commune of Ferrières in Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium.

The site originally dates back to the Middle Ade, when a fortified manor surrounded by a moat and towers was established in the valley of the Boé river at the boundary between the schistous Famenne and the limestone Calestienne regions.

Over the centuries the property became associated with the Selys-Fanson family, and during the 17th and 18th centuries the castle was enlarged and reorganized into a complex of buildings enclosing five courtyards, with its main façade erected in 1764 in a classical style that fronts the older fortified core. 

The interior preserves notable features such as an elegant 18th-century wrought-iron staircase railing, neoclassical stucco decoration, a grand salon with stucco medallions, a dining room with mythological paintings after Louis Boullongne, and a chapel with a Liège gold-carved altarpiece from the early 1700s, all set within a large private estate of woods, meadows, parks and ponds that is not open to the public.