Château d'Aubry

Located in the Scarpe Escaut regional nature park, three minutes from Valenciennes, the vast 16th-century manor house and its park have been transformed into a venue for seminars, residential seminars (with 17 rooms), receptions and weddings?

It all began in the 16th century, when the lord of Aubry-du-Hainaut (Jean de Thiant) replaced the medieval fortified castle with a Renaissance château between 1500 and 1520. Several Hainaut lordly families followed, including the Marquis de Saluces de Bernemicourt, then Count Van der Burch in the 18th century. On the death of the Count in 1846, the château was bought by an industrialist, Monsieur Dubois, who restored it and its grounds (a magnificent Romantic park in the English style, with trees several hundred years old), blending the Romantic style of the period with Renaissance architecture.

On the street side: the Flemish facade (Spanish Flemish Renaissance,) in brick, embellished with small mullioned windows, is revealed with its tower, similar to that of the Palais Rihour in Lille. On the park side, the château adopts a different, more feminine 18th-century style. The residence - like an island - is surrounded by the moat of the earlier medieval castle, and harbors ancient secrets that can be discovered by walking around the castle. In the castle courtyard, once the village square, stands the seigniorial pillory of justice, with a lion?s head at its center. It was here, in a public place, that the lord punished criminals ...