VILLETTE CASTLE

This old house of the Middle Ages, completely burnt in 1552, was rebuilt in 1580. We visit the park, the garden garden and the medicinal bath, the restored rooms, the cellars and the attic. Property of Cardinal Mazarin, which stayed there during the Sling, this strong house was built in the th century and was transformed into a castle of pleasure over time, together with a French garden of J.-B. de Maucomble, secretary of Louis XV. It is located on the banks of the river Meuse, on the Iges peninsula, described by Emile Zola as the camp of misery. The garden was completely redone. Nicolas Philibert, the Constitutional Bishop of the Ardennes, réfugia from 1793 to 1797 to escape Terror. He is buried in the little cemetery.