Castle
Kasteel van Horst
Belgium
- Location
- Holsbeek
- Coordinates
- 50.93354°, 4.83217°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q1652213
- Links
- OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
Description
The castle of Sint-Pieters-Rode, also called Horst Castle, is located in Flemish Brabant in Belgium (3220 Holsbeek). Together with the castles of Bouillon, Beersel, Corroy, Ghent, Lavaux and Vêves, it is one of the most beautiful medieval castles in Belgium. Horst Castle owes its greenish colour to glauconite, a clayey stone.
Machine-translated from “Château de Horst” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
In the rankings
Kasteel van Horst ranks #6,492 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #94 of the 140 mapped in Belgium. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 854 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Leuven, 11 km away. See how Belgium compares in the castle statistics.
Castles nearby
- Arenberg Castle13 km · Belgium
- Castle of Westerlo18 km · Belgium
- Duras Castle25 km · Belgium
- Elewijt Castle25 km · Belgium
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