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Le château en bref
Château de Fumal stands at the heart of the village of Fumal, in the municipality of Braives, in Hesbaye (province of Liège). It was the centre of the former lordship of Fumal, documented from the 12th century, with a first mention in 1150, and the village developed around it, in a valley that the Ancien Régime divided between the County of Namur and the Principality of Liège. Only remnants of the medieval castle survive: a section of wall and the ruins of a 12th-century tower, visible at the far end of the cemetery adjoining the Church of Saint-Martin. The present residence, surrounded by a walled park planted with remarkable trees, is the product of several centuries of alterations to a 16th-century core, according to a tourist information notice. Together with the church and the castle farm (the Cense d'Al Fosse, or Ferme de la Vieille Cense), it forms a protected ensemble, classified as a site in 1976.