Cugnon Castle

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Le château en bref

The château known as Pierlot occupies a walled park at Cugnon, a village in the municipality of Bertrix overlooking the Semois, a few minutes from the town. A classical house with a compact plan, it was built in the eighteenth century by the princes of Loewenstein-Wertheim, who held the lordship of Cugnon, apparently on the site of an earlier building attributed to the La Marcks. The rendered schist walls, the seven bays on each façade, the semicircular perron and the wrought-iron balcony give the whole the handsome regularity of a manor house. In the nineteenth century the property passed to the Pierlot family, slate industrialists at Cugnon and Bertrix, who modernised it without altering its silhouette. As a private residence, it is not open to visitors: it can only be glimpsed from the street. It should be distinguished from the medieval fortress of Cugnon, a separate archaeological site of which nothing more is visible.