France · 18th century
The Château du Sart is a château in the Sart-Babylone quarter of Villeneuve d'Ascq, the Nord department of France.
The château was built in 1740. It was rarely occupied by its owners, the Seigneurs of Fourmestraux.
The park was transformed into an 18-hole golf course, and nowadays, the château has become the course club house.
The château had the rich Van Der Cruisse de Waziers library, which was destroyed by the Germans during the First World War.
In the farmyard of the old farm, near the château, is a pigeon house which was designed following the model of Diderot et d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie.
Text adapted from “Château du Sart” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château du Sart ranks #7,956 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #758 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded 1740, it is older than 18% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 696 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lille, 6 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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