The Château des Ducs d’Havré is a stunning fortress surrounded by moats, and has been rebuilt and renovated several times. You will love its charming keep, quadrilateral courtyard and ribbed-ceiling chapel. During your visit, you can also explore the chateau’s wonderful 6,000 m2 gardens with no fewer than 252 varieties and 360 types of perennial plants. The roses fill the air with their gorgeous fragrances.
Nearby activities
Baudour’s location only 20 kilometres from the town of Mons in Belgium enables you to enjoy many excursions and cultural visits.
Château des Ducs d'Havré
- 27 minutes by car
Mons Memorial Museum
This huge exhibition by the Mons Memorial Museum immerses you in a journey based on the events of the two world wars. Follow the fate and daily lives of women and men, soldiers and civilians, and witnesses of the period in the Mons region. Their personal accounts bring to life the items you can see throughout your visit, through notebooks and letters as well as interviews that give a sensitive view of these events.
Temporary exhibitions are also regularly featured.
- 20 minutes by car
Pairi Daiza
Voted the best zoo in Europe, Pairi Daiza or the Garden of Worlds takes you on a journey of the five continents to meet 7,000 animals. Explore eight worlds in extraordinary settings: the Kingdom of Ganesha (Indonesia), the Middle Kingdom (ancestral China), the Land of the Cold (white ice floes and green tundra), Cambron-Abbey (peaceful gardens for birds), Cambron-by-the-Sea (ocean depths and the world of silence), the Land of Origins (Africa, the cradle of our civilisation), the Southern Cape and the Last Frontier (British Columbia and southern Alaska). Take a startling journey to see sometimes rare species!
- 20 minutes by car