Leva Castle

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Le château en bref

Leva Castle stands in Alken, in the locality of Terkoest, in the Flemish province of Limburg, set in a park of simple design. Despite what its picturesque silhouette might suggest, it is a twentieth-century construction: built in 1939 (the inventory record gives 1938) to plans by the architect Gauthier, it replaced the former Grady Castle, which had developed from a closed farm already shown on the Ferraris map and was remodelled in the nineteenth century. The De Leva family, who inherited the estate through the female line, had the left and rear wings of the old castle demolished. In the Art Deco style, the building is of rendered brick painted white on a plinth of natural stone; it combines a block-like volume over a raised ground floor, a glass canopy above the entrance, small turrets, bay windows and a colonnaded gallery. The park, formerly attached to Grady Castle, replaced an older garden from 1868 onwards. The castle, the park and the remains of the former Grady Castle are protected as monuments for their historical and socio-cultural value.