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Le château en bref
Het Vurstje Castle, in Evergem (East Flanders), is a neoclassical country house dating from around 1850, built on the site of an older residence first mentioned in 1803. This small castle has rendered façades and two crossing hipped roofs, topped by a roof turret. Its two identical façades each have seven bays over two storeys, linked by a continuous entablature. A central avant-corps, half a storey higher, is decorated with rusticated quoins and a flight of three steps leading to the entrance. Inside, the garden-side salon is decorated with stucco reliefs depicting the allegories of painting, architecture, drawing, sculpture, agriculture and the sciences, and several rooms retain stucco ceilings. The landscape-style park is organised around a winding pond crossed by a bridge. It contains ornamental vases, a well-preserved ice house surmounted by a two-storey garden pavilion with mock half-timbering and a terrace, and a former approach avenue to the north. To the west lies the farm (neerhof), whose detached buildings date from the late 18th or early 19th century. The estate has been protected since 19 June 1997: the castle, the ice house and the pavilion as a monument, and the park and its surroundings as a site.