En un regard
Le château en bref
Villers Tower is a remnant of Brussels' first city wall, whose construction, attributed to the reign of Duke Henry I of Brabant, dates to the 13th century. It stands on Rue de Villers, at the corner of Rue des Alexiens, and extends a stretch of curtain wall that forms the longest surviving section of this wall, which was about four kilometres long. It belongs to a type of fortification common in our regions: a curtain wall on arches founded on an earthen embankment. In the 1960s, the City architect J. Rombaux restored it together with the neighbouring curtain wall sections, after the demolition of the small houses leaning against the wall; the crenellated parapet visible today is a reconstruction intended to suggest a hypothetical 13th-century appearance. The tower offers a viewpoint over the surviving stretch of wall. It can be seen from the public space, with no access to the interior, along the city's heritage walks.