Belvoir Castle

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Le château en bref

Perched on a hill in northern Leicestershire, about ten kilometres west of Grantham, Belvoir Castle overlooks the vale that bears its name. Its Norman name means "beautiful view", though it is pronounced "Beaver". A first castle was built here as early as 1067, just after the Norman Conquest, and the site has been rebuilt at least three times since. The present building is a Gothic Revival castle, designed by James Wyatt for the 5th Duke of Rutland and his wife Elizabeth Howard from 1801 onwards. When it was almost complete, a fire on 26 October 1816 ravaged it, destroying paintings by Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck; rebuilt to the same plans, it was finished around 1832. Its central tower recalls that of Windsor. Owned by the Manners family since 1508 and seat of the Dukes of Rutland since 1703, it is still lived in by the family and open to the public. A film location on several occasions (The Da Vinci Code, The Young Victoria, The Crown), Belvoir was largely closed in March 2026 for the filming of season 4 of the Netflix series "The Diplomat": its drawing rooms stand in for Hal Wyler's office inside Windsor Castle.