Some of you will have noticed that I love visiting castles.
Earlier I wrote about the Castle of Nokere (here), about the Castle of Beloeil and the Castle of 's Gravenwezel ,where Axel Vervoordt lives (here).
Belgium has a lot of beautiful castles and some of them you can visit for the entire year, others only once a year such as the Castle of Leeuwergem, that we visited yesterday because of the garden exhibition which is an annual tradition.
A lot of exhibitors expose their garden related products.
The castle was built during the years 1762-1764 and is surrounded by a 32 hectare park and there is a combination of classical French gardens and a romantic English garden.
The castle even features an internationally celebrated open air theater.
The domain is privately owned by the Baron and Baroness Baudouin della Faille d'Huysse.
The baron and baroness.
The beautiful frontdoor of the castle.
Backside.
You can hear the horsecoaches arriving on the bridge...
This is the renowned open air theater which is surrounded by beechhedges and beech trees. This provides excellent acoustics.
Oranjerie with her beautiful windows.
Castle is surrounded by water.
The park.In the distance you can notice 2 sphinxes where the English-styled garden starts.
Grazing horses.
The coach house.
And here below I show you some pictures that I took yesterday by visiting the garden exhibition.
Wonderful plants to buy.
The baron has won a price for the restoration of the oranjerie in 1992. He did the restoration in a perfect compliance with the French style.
Beautiful engravings to discover in the orangerie.
You could even learn more about the different kind of owls!
Jan was interested in sharping knives.
I would love to have this ornament in my garden!
The vegetable garden.
Me and Ralph.xx
Greet
...un dia maravilloso...tu perro Ralf me encanta...felicidades
ReplyDeleteLourdes Ferrandiz
Gorgeous photo of you, love your bag, that's the one I want!! So fun to be able to have the tour without actually being there! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the tour to another era of beauty and culture!
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful. My mother was from Liege, your posts are like a walk through my childhood summers.
ReplyDeleteHola Greet ..... Castillo muy agradable .. y muy bonito día ....¡¡¡¡¡ me gustaría saber belga mejor .... Y para comprar fourniture de estilo belga ¡¡¡¡¡ muy agradable en la foto .... ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ muy feliz Berta
ReplyDeleteOnly in my dreams! How wonderful it is that you get to enjoy this everyday. I love the fact that men aren't very different the world over, my husband would have also been looking at the knives!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful place. I adore the front doors. From a distance they make it as though the castle is winking at you. And the owls!! I have such a fondness for owls.
ReplyDeleteRalph is extremely handsome!
hallo,
ReplyDeleteEen van mijn favorieten. Louis XVIII, the broer van Louis XVI heeft daar nog een tijd gelogeerd.
Mooi artikel!!!!!
Bonjour Greet. You are so lucky to have castles in your neighborhood! Beautiful pictures...I'd love to build a house around those double front doors. Trish
ReplyDeleteThe castle is just beautiful and surrounded by water! Wow! Thanks for the great pics. Looks like you had lovely time.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the picture of pretty you and your lovely Ralph! Regards from Seattle!
ReplyDeleteHi Greet
ReplyDeleteGorgeous castle and simply beautiful grounds. Imagine having this much space to oneself? Although I guess it would be an enormous task to maintain. Love the bag also! Have a great week. Julie
Lovely place. Interesting that you call it a Castle. In the UK such a house would be called a Stately Home,Castle being used for a fortified building
ReplyDeleteCastles & Gardens ~ I can never get enough! Thanks for the lovely tour.
ReplyDelete~Jermaine~
A lovely tour, so wonderful to have everything at your fingertips. The owls, the plants- the orangery is perfect. I am loving your blog and following along. Gaye
ReplyDeleteOh Greet, isn't this beautiful? Over 250 years old, and it is a classic. I saved the picture of the front door - I am trying to get ideas that are European (not English) in style, yet still let light in through the door. This one is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking us with you on your visit to the castle :-) It's a lovely building & property, and the hedges in the open air theater are amazing!! I also love the oranjerie :-)
ReplyDeleteKelly
What a fun day! And such a beautiful castle!!! I love to tour castles too. when I go to Scotland every year, I make sure I go to a few castles. So romantic.
ReplyDeleteLove the owls!!
xx
callie
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI have some difficulties with my comments at your blog. So I will try again now.
I like to visit castles with all history in the walls and the old and beautiful design.
Thanks for your lovely comments at my blog ! I'm so happy for them.
xo
Anci
G, you are so pretty! Oh, to live among castles... you lucky girl. Thanks for visiting and leaving such a sweet note.
ReplyDeleteGreet, Your pictures are really nice and showing the most beautiful parts of the castle and its garden. I particularly know this because I live in it. Many more people like you should do those kind of articles because it helps us a lot in promoting this domain in order to maintain the beauty of the site. As Julie said above, it's a very big task. Therefore we have to organize garden exhibitions and many other activities to be able to restore as many parts possible. Lots of people tend to think that living in a castle is great. It's right, but we have to work a lot for it.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, you are all welcome at our Garden Exhibitions. All the activities are to be found on our official website.
Best regards, Baron Adrien della Faille d'Huysse