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Le château en bref
Horion Castle, in the hamlet of Horion in Grâce-Hollogne (Horion-Hozémont, province of Liège), is a fortified château surrounded by deep moats. Originally, four towers flanked a square courtyard; three survive, linked by tall walls of rubblestone from various periods. The seigneury passed from the Horion family to the Carondelets, then to Adam Mercier and the Salmes, before entering the Grady de Horion family at the beginning of the eighteenth century, to whom it has belonged ever since. The north wing and its central entrance with a broken pediment bear the date 1725; the east wing, of five irregular bays on two storeys, had its windows replaced in the nineteenth century, a period in which the outbuildings were also built and the former castle chapel, located on the other side of the road, was restored. The south and west wings have disappeared, giving way to a large terrace reached by a three-arched stone bridge. A park laid out at the beginning of the twentieth century, with centuries-old trees and dotted with ponds, surrounds the whole. The château is a private residence, which is in principle not open to visitors.