220 BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG REGION BY REGION
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp271–3 and pp297–9
The fawn-and-white patterned Château de Jehay, rising from its moat
Magnificently furnished interior of the Château de ModaveChâteau de
Modave 411 km (7 miles) SE of Huy. Road
Map E3. Tel (085) 411369. # late
Mar–mid-Nov: 10am–6pm Tue–Sun.
& 9 0 http://www.modave-castle.beBuilt on a precipitous rocky
spur with views over River
Hoyaux, the imposing Château
de Modave owes its appear-
ance mainly to its overhaul in
Flemish Renaissance style by
the count of Marchin in
1652–73. The well-furnished,
often sumptuous rooms inside
are decorated with tapestries,
panelling and impressive
poly chrome stuccowork, and
17th–18th century furniture.
The gardens and fountains
of Versailles were fed by a
massive hydraulic waterwheel
designed by Renkin Sualem
(1645–1708), royal engineer
to Louis XIV: the 1667 proto-
type for it was built at Modave,
as an exhibition here explains.Château de Jehay 2
Rue du Parc 1, Amay; 20 km (12
miles) SW of Liège. Road Map E3.
Apr–Sep: 2–6pm Tue–Fri, 11am–
6pm Sat, Sun and Easter weekend.
& 9 http://www.chateaujehay.be
With its chequerboard walls
of limestone and brown
sandstone and its pepperpot
towers, this is one of the most
delightful castles in Belgium.
Although founded in the 11th
century, the building dates
largely from the 16th century
and has a Renaissance feel. In
1698, it was taken over by the
van den Steen family. Count
Guy van den Steen (1905–99),
its most recent owner, was an
artist and sculptor who left
many works, notably bronze
female nudes, in situ when he
bequeathed the castle to the
Province of Liège. The interior
contains tapestries, antique
furniture, pottery, silverware,
maps and manuscripts, as
well as archaeological finds.
Huy 3
28 km (17 miles) SW of Liège.
Road Map D3. * 20,000. £
@ n Quai de Namur 1; (085)
Founded as a Roman military
base, Huy was an important
town in the Principality of
Liège between AD 985 and
- It was renowned in the
Middle Ages as a centre for
textiles and for metal and
gold work. Its castle, perched
above the town, repeatedly
attracted the attention of
pas sing armies, notably that
of Louis XIV of France in the
late 17th century; for that
reason, the Hutois destroyed
it in 1717. Notwithstanding,
the Dutch built the massive
Fort de Huy on the same site
in 1818–23. It was used by
the Nazis between 1940 and
1944 as a concentration camp- author PG Wodehouse was
interned here for a month in
- The darker truths of this
period are the subject of the
Musée de la Résistance et des
Camps de Concentration. In
summer, the fort is accessible
by a cable car departing from
the left bank of the Meuse.
Huy’s main church is the
Gothic Collégiale Notre Dame,
built between 1311 and 1536.
Its treasury has fine examples
of 12th- to 13th-century Mosan
silver and gold work, but the
church is best known for its
15th-century rose window,
Li Rondia. This is cited as one
of the four wonders of Hutois
heritage, the others being Li
Tchestia (The Fort), Li Bassinia
(the 15th-century fountain in
the Grand Place) and Li Pontia
(a bridge over the Meuse).P Fort de Huy
Chaussée Napoléon. Tel (085)
Easter–Sep. &