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The castle of Walzin is placed in Walloon (Belgium), in the old municipality from Namen of Dréhance (Dinant). The lower valley of in the course of the centuries the river has this eagle nest, which stands on a rocky piton, which hangs to a pick concerning a meander of the lesse, as well as of the ways bolted which link Dinant, and France. One believes that the Lords of Walzin occupied this defending position from theXIII° century. However of this era only some round turn of left-hand side is continue exist because the exceptional strategic situation of the castle gave him a lot of covetousnesses but also and especially a lot of vexations. The castle undergoes many destruction because châtelains of Walzin were suzerain of prins-bisschops of Luik and they had been of course involved in the continuous conflicts which these opposed to Philip the Good but also to Maximiliaan of Austria. That brought a first golf of destruction which continued at the wars between emperor Karel and Henri II of France. The castle had to a very serious damage which is committed in 1793, by the French revolutionary armies .The restorations of the beginning of XIX°, 1881 and 1930 century have made the aspect such impressive as we know it today.
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