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La Hulpe is a municipality in Wallonia, Belgium, near Brussels. It has a history of paper-making, a castle and a domain owned by the Solvay family, and a Folon Foundation.
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Solvay Castle (French: Château Solvay, also called Château de La Hulpe) is a château located in Wallonia in the municipality of La Hulpe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Completed for the Marquis Maximilien de Béthune as an imposing manor house on the outskirts of Brussels in the 1840s, the castle stands on a hill overlooking a lake set in a park ...
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Domain Solvay is named after Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), who was born in Rebecq, Belgium, to a quarry master and his wife. Ernest and his brother Alfred developed a new process for the industrial production of sodium carbonate. They founded the Solvay company in 1863, flirting with bankruptcy while perfecting the process. From 1870 to 1880, Ernest S...
In spring the wild flowers along the edge of the lake are superb, and include bluebell, lily of the valley, wood anemone, bugle, wild sage, marsh marigold, self-heal, ground ivy and dog violet.
A flight of steps leads from the lakeside up to the Belvedere. The dictionary describes a Belvedere as “a small pavilion or tower, built to give a view of the scenery.” I am sure that when this Belvedere was built it offered a marvellous view of the countryside. Now, however, the trees have grown higher than the Belvedere, so all you see are leaves...
The woods are part of the great Sonian Forest, a 43 square kilometre mixed woodland that was once part of a huge forest that stretched from the Rhine and Moselle rivers in Germany to the North Sea. As the population of Belgium grew, the forest began to shrink as woodland was converted into fields. Some degree of protection was afforded in the 12th ...
This strange 36-metre high tower was built by Ernest John Solvay, the grandson of Ernest Solvay. It has a 4.5 metre diameter sun on top. It is said that he built it so that he could look at “the sun” each morning from his west-facing bedroom in the château.
The Château farm ceased to be a working farm in 1971. It has been converted by the Folon Foundationinto a permanent exhibition of over 500 works of the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005). It includes watercolours, engravings, posters and sculptures, along with music, films and optical effects. It is open every day except Mondays, from 10....
The centrepiece of Domain Solvay is the Château de La Hulpe. It looks like it’s been airlifted in from the Loire Valley, but was actually built here by the Marquis of Bethune in 1842. At the end of the 19th century, wealthy Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay acquired the property. In 1968 the Solvay family donated the château and park to the Belgi...
The footpath indicated follows the small stream called the Argentine. On the other side of the stream is the Nysdam nature reserve belonging to Natagora, the Belgian nature conservation organisation. I like walking along the Argentine in Spring as it’s full of wild flowers: butterbur, red and white campion, comfrey, ragged robin, wild strawberry, S...
Explore the 220 hectares of Domain Solvay, a former industrialist's estate with a castle, a lake, a folly and a forest. Learn about the history of the Solvay family, the Folon Art Museum and the Sonian Forest.
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