In an unforgettable setting, receive and make comfort as at home.
The old farmhouse can accommodate up to 17 people. The gîte consists of an entrance hall with a tv / video lounge, a large kitchen with professional equipment with the possibility to have breakfast all together, a main room with a fireplace and a relaxation lounge, and a long oak table for family meals.
On the 1st floor are 3 triple bedrooms (3 beds of 90 cm), 1 with bathroom and 2 with private showers and toilets, a room with sauna and shower, a mezzanine with a semi-professional pool table, A reading room.
On the 2nd floor there are 4 bedrooms (160 cm beds), 2 with bathrooms, and 2 with private showers and toilets.
Outside, there is a private parking for 6 cars. A courtyard and a large garden with furniture for 17 people face the Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne. A barbecue, a table football, a badminton set and a ping-pong table are also at your disposal.
All outdoor spaces are fenced and secured.
Finally, all the ground floor has a wifi access. Internet is available in the rooms via an ethernet cable.
The village of Lavaux-Sainte-Anne, located near Rochefort (B), in the province of Namur, dates from the Merovingian period.
Lavaux-Sainte-Anne formerly depended on the principality of Liège. In the 13th century, a castle is built as well as a chapel dedicated to Sainte-Anne, probably within the precincts of the latter.
Around 1450, Lavaux was designed to delay the onslaught: deep-water moats, a curved dyke, a drawbridge, archers, loopholes, round towers offering fewer balls, dominant dungeon and ultimate refuge In case of danger.
In 1630, the Renaissance was in full swing and Baron de Rouveroy pulled down the north flank, airing the courtyard, raising the levels and raising the castle with bricks in profusion, headbands, mullions, shells, pilasters and stone corners. The adjacent fortified farm dates from the same period.
The chapel Sainte-Anne has been demolished and a parish church arranged more in the center of the village. After the French Revolution, the castle was put up for sale as a national property.
Over time, it changed several times as owner and was subsequently transmitted to the Ligue des Amis of Château de Lavaux founded by Madame Lemonnier. The league will restore the old house which will become a hunting museum and will be accessible to the public.
Small anecdote: during World War II, hundreds of cases were deposited secretly in the underground of the castle. They contained paintings from the Museum of Bruges as well as books from the Plantin Museum in Antwerp. It was therefore very discreetly that the gendarmes of the region monitored these precious objects.
The inhabitants of Lavaux are endowed with the sobriquet the Petias (small wild pears).
It was in 1450, John II of Berlo ordered the construction of the castle. From century to century, the building was reinforced and renovated. Lavaux-Sainte-Anne did not occupy a very strategic position for a long time.
In the Roman period, the Famenne was traversed by several secondary routes. One of them, coming from Givet and continuing towards Ave-t-Auffe, passed through Lavaux a hundred yards north of the chateau. It was bordered by villas like those discovered at Genimont or by fortresses like that of Eprave. The creation of the principality of Liège will make the region of Lavaux a border area with the neighboring duchy of Luxembourg. This border is protected by fortresses like Agimont, Revogne, Lavaux and Rochefort. The lords of this period are from the "Wellin" family. The first known mention of Lavaux dates from 1244; Jacques de Wellin was Lavaux during his lifetime.