Castles & Palaces
Belgium castle landscape

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Castles in Belgium

Home to medieval guild halls, Flemish belfries and the moated castles of the Ardennes.

Citadel of Dinant (Citadelle de Dinant) on its 100-metre limestone cliff above the Meuse in Wallonia, Belgium — the star-plan fortress built 1818–21, with the collegiate church of Notre-Dame and cable car at the cliff base

belgium · Namur Province, Wallonia

Citadel of Dinant

The vertical cliff fortress of the Meuse — Dinant Citadel rises 100 metres above the town on a sheer limestone wall, its cable car ascending beside a Gothic collegiate church, its courtyards carrying the history of Charles the Bold, Vauban, and the 1914 massacre of 674 civilians

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Citadel of Huy (La Citadelle de Huy) on its limestone bluff above the Meuse in Wallonia, Belgium — the 1818–23 Dutch-era star fortress that served as a WWII detention camp, now a memorial museum

belgium · Liège Province, Wallonia

Citadel of Huy

The WWII camp above the Meuse — a fortress that has guarded Huy since the 9th century, dismantled, rebuilt under Dutch rule in 1818, and then used by Nazi Germany to hold 7,000 prisoners above the town that looked up at it daily

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Château de Bouillon wrapped around a rocky river loop in the Belgian Ardennes

belgium · Wallonia, Luxembourg Province

Bouillon Castle

The castle of Godfrey of Bouillon — leader of the First Crusade

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Château de Vêves with its five pointed towers rising above the Ardennes forest near Dinant, Belgium

belgium · Namur Province / Ardennes

Château de Vêves

Belgium's fairy-tale castle — five medieval towers rising from the Ardennes forest

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Gravensteen castle rising above the Ghent canals at dusk, with the medieval city roofline behind

belgium · East Flanders

Gravensteen

A Crusader-inspired castle in the heart of Ghent — the stronghold of the Counts of Flanders

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Citadel of Namur above the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre rivers in Belgium

belgium · Wallonia, Namur Province

Citadel of Namur

The most besieged fortress in history, guardian of the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre

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Beersel Castle's three round towers reflected in the surrounding moat, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

belgium · Flemish Brabant / Brussels

Beersel Castle

A perfectly preserved 14th-century moated fortress just 15 km from Brussels

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Laarne Castle reflected in its water moat, East Flanders, Belgium

belgium · East Flanders

Laarne Castle

One of the best-preserved moated medieval castles in Flanders — 10 km from Ghent

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