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Le château en bref
Wégimont Castle stands in Ayeneux, a district of Soumagne (Province of Liège), in the middle of a 22-hectare wooded park that has become a provincial estate. A former seigneurial castle surrounded by a moat and a glacis, it owes its name, according to a tourist brochure, to the first known occupant of the site, a certain Wigger, mentioned in 1190, while its origins seem to date back to the 15th century according to the regional heritage inventory. Of the ensemble that existed before the fire of 1964, the entrance tower of 1614 survives, preceded by a fixed bridge and pierced by an arched porch in the baroque style, along with the ends of the northern and southern side wings and the terrace that once ran along the main residential block to the east, which has since disappeared. The oldest surviving part is a tower with two Gothic windows, to the north. Partially destroyed in 1636 and enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle passed from the Aspremont Lynden and then the Oultremont families to the Province of Liège, which opened a provincial estate there in 1938. It is now fitted out as an accommodation centre.