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Corroy-le-Château Castle
Belgium
Corroy-le-Château CH1b JPG
Type Castle

Corroy-le-Château Castle (French) is a medieval castle in the village of Corroy-le-Château and the municipality of Gembloux in the province of Namur, Belgium.

Originally built between 1220 and 1230 by William of Brabant, the castle is one of the best-preserved medieval buildings in Belgium, with gigantic round towers and a moat.

After some eight hundred years in the possession of the descendants of William of Brabant, the last of whom to live there was the Marquis de Trazegnies, a family dispute led to a court ordering the sale of the castle at public auction. In 2008 it was sold to the artist Wim Delvoye, who announced that he planned to turn it into a museum of modern art.[1][2]

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Coordinates: 50°31′58″N 4°39′22″E / 50.5328°N 4.6561°E / 50.5328; 4.6561

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