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'Vicomté' stands for viscounty and 'La Vicomté' is sometimes also used as a nickname for Jodoigne. Viscounts of Jodoigne were originally noble titles that were awarded to members of the family de Glymes de Hollebecque, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries. This title was often linked to the possession of the castle de la Vicomté. It is not so easy to see the structure and size of this castle by sight. When you come from the Gete you walk along a rising path with an old wall on the left and an old fence with an old gate and old stairs in the depths on the right. It seems as if all this merges seamlessly into the terrain behind the castle of Vicomté. The small tower in brick and Gobertange stone that Dominiek mentions is the first recognizable part of the domain when you walk to the main square. From the main square it is a lot easier: you recognize the house immediately. Photos of the various parts that make it up, with some history, can be found at https://www.destinationbw.be/nl/fiche/ontdekking-en-recreatie/het-kasteel-van-vicomte-jodoigne_TFOLOD-A0-007C-15NJ/ Also mention that on the Vicomté domain there are still remains of the ramparts that once stood around Jodoigne and that were first built in the thirteenth century. That rampart had several towers and gates. It enclosed the primitive castle that stood on the site of the current Château Pastur. Something more about the Counts of Glymes who stayed here in the 17th century: Jodoigne was then just going through a period of decline. The 17th century was called the century of adversity (and the 16th century was not much better). In the 17th century, the King of Spain transferred the Jodoigne estate to Philippe de Ligne, Duke of Aarschot and Arenberg. And a few years later, it was bought by Count Winant de Glymes. Winant de Glymes and his wife Michelle d'Yedeghem lived in this castle of Vicomté. A few dozen meters further on the market, in the chapelle Notre-Dame du Marché, is their tomb. The Glymes family had a strong bond with Jodoigne. Guillaume de Glymes, already lived in a country house in Jodoigne-Souveraine in the fourteenth century, the predecessor of the current castle there that was built by the half-brothers Antoine-Joseph de Glymes and Ernest-Joseph de Spangen.

The Château Rose was built by order of Albert-Pierre Stier (1745-1816). In 1776, he bought the seigniory of Orp, as it had been known since the end of the 17th century, when the land of Orp-le-Grand was merged with that of Orp-le-Petit. The pillory of Orp-le-Petit at the front is one of about fifty in Belgium that are listed by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage. When our country was invaded by France in 1794, the French revolutionaries rushed to abolish the symbols of the Ancien Régime and the pillory was demolished. A few years later, around 1826, Baron Jean-François de Vinck de deux Orp (1774-1827), nephew of the builder of the castle, had the restored elements of the pillory rebuilt on his estate, more specifically in the central part of the meadow below the castle. Source: https://www.orp-jauche.be/wp-content/uploads/Brochure_PetitPatrimoinePopulaire_ORP.pdf

The castle was owned by the Viscounts of Jodoigne and the Counts of Glymes in the 16th and 17th centuries. What remains of the old castle today is a beautiful and large building, recently renovated, whose facade in Gobertange stone gives an extra touch to the Grand’Place. The building continues along the rue de la Maladrerie and ends on a very beautiful turret or “gloriette” in brick and Gobertange stone. The castle is now private. (Experience Walloon Brabant)

Always very pleasant to walk/run in this beautiful park

Note: there is a beautiful walk that starts at the beguinage in Tienen and is called "Ast tot Bostwandeling". The name says enough (you don't go all the way to Goetsenhoven but turn around in Ast) https://www.toerismevlaamsbrabant.be/producten/wandelen/ast-tot-bostwandeling/

Here you will find the main entrance to the castle of Ast. But if you walk here you will undoubtedly have already noticed a domain with a wall around it, a chapel or an older building that seems to belong to a domain. Together they all form the Castle domain of Ast. Ast itself was a hamlet at the beginning of the nineteenth century, "Den Ast", northwest of the village centre of Goetsenhoven. It consisted of three large farms, three day labourers' houses and a chapel, surrounded by a small, disused cemetery. A wine merchant living in Tienen and originating from Goetsenhoven, Gustaaf Vandenschilde, was able to buy twelve contiguous plots of land in the period 1861-1865. And he immediately had one of the first eclectic country houses built in the region. The castle of Ast. Short description: "Eclectic country house built in 1864 by order of Gustaaf Vandenschilde, wine merchant from Tienen, and adapted in 1917 by the Brussels stockbroker Gaston Philips by adding corner projections under high hipped roofs. Country house with castle allure with outbuilding and preserved accessible chapel from 1822, surrounded by landscaped park of almost 2 hectares; unique collection of old and rare trees, including Californian torreya." Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Kasteeldomein van Ast, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/134214

Perfect place for a picnic: the lawn at the third pond (the other two are not allowed) and a beautiful picnic spot at the back of the park. Pop Up Bar with terrace open Wednesdays, weekends, public holidays and school holidays.