CASTLE AND PARK OF BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC

Address:

Rue A. Demoor 3
1421 OPHAIN-BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC (BRAINE-L'ALLEUD)
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Tel.:+32 (0) 67 21 38 80

Fax:+32 (0) 67 84 07 09

The park of the Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Chateau is a landscaped park laid out at the beginning of the 19th century. It is designed around the prospect from the chateau to the former guard house with its neo-gothic windows, surrounded by woods against which magnificent specimens of copper beeches, limes and chestnuts stand out. Apart from a centuries-old bower of trees, the park also boasts several other remarkable trees: 400 year old yews, Atlas cedars, locust trees and false acacias, American oaks, weeping beeches etc. Behind and parallel with the chateau stretches a formal garden designed by Dechêne in the early 20th century. Rose alternate with peonies, salvias and geraniums. Other areas of the garden are planted to mixed borders.

Comment:

Open to the general public from 2pm to 6pm: the last two Sundays in June, the first Sunday in July and the second weekend of September (during the National Heritage Days) - For groups: all year round, by reservation.
Access : E411 motorway (Brussels - Namur:), exit 9: Corroy-le-Grand, follow signposts for Louvain-la-Neuve, then N25: follow signposts for Nivelles as far as the Lillois exit, then follow signposts to Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac.
Admission fee: € 3,50 p.p., € 2,- for under-16s.
Guided tours: if booked in advance - In French and Dutch (1 hr, tour of the chateau included).

Extra information:

INDICE PASSE-PARTOUT: 020257

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