Ribaucourt Castle, Perk, Belgium

Ribaucourt castle was built originally in the 12th century, but it was just a fortitied wooden tower. The lords of Perk expanded the castle and it was in possession of several South Brabant noble families. During the French occupation in 1809 the French officer Pieter Bounder of Melsbroek bought the castle. He sold the castle in 1833 to Count Prosper Christyn de Ribaucourt, senator of Dendermonde. The current Count Daniël de Ribaucourt is still Lord of Perk.

The castle is considered as one of the most beautiful of the Brussels area. It counts more than 200 rooms and was modernized by it owners throughout the centuries. The current castle largely dates back to the 17th, 18 and 19th century. The park is 90ha and consists of meadows, forest and ponds. It is a real nature and bird sanctuary.

The castle is private domain but you can view it from the public road and on rare locations there are walks organized in the park.

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Belgian Castles

Castles and fortifications in Belgium

Thank you for comments, the wrong image is now removed.

As the first comment stated, one of the pictures is the Horst castle (https://castles.nl/horst-castle) and not the Ribaucourt castle.

Dit is het kasteel van Horst(Holsbeek). Adres Horststraat 28, 3220 Holsbeek (Holsbeek) Tel. +32 3 226 31 85 kasteelvanhorst@herita.be https://www.kasteelvanhorst.be

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Radimlja is a stećak (monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina) necropolis located near Stolac. The necropolis is one of the most valuable monuments of the mediaeval period in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The majority of its stećak tombstones date from the 1480s through the 16th century, as evidenced by the epitaph on one of the tombstones. This was the period when the family Miloradović-Stjepanović from genus Hrabren lived in the settlement located on near hill Ošanići. At the time the location was known as Batnoge, and the creation of the necropolis coincides with the rise of this noble family.

The necropolis includes 133 stećci. When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period in 1882, it ran through the necropolis and destroyed at least 15-20 tombstones.

Jozefien Colman (11 months ago)
Top location for a top festival! Thank you to the owner for allowing the domain to be used for such things!

Maurice Vanhoof (12 months ago)
Been inside for the first time in my life

YezzField (16 months ago)
Beautiful castle of Mathis!

Els Cools (2 years ago)
Privately. Unfortunately, very little can be seen from the street. Beautiful castle but only accessible on special occasions.

Marta Pogorzelska (6 years ago)
Beautiful scenery at each hour of day and night

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