Namur Castle
Description:
Namur Castle (or Namur Citadel) is the most significant building in the city. It served as a strategic bastion that survived many attacks and rearrangements. The history of the city is closely connected with the history of the castle. In the III and IV centuries, the Romans built a fortified observation post on the top of the mountain to protect the Maas Valley from invasions by Germanic tribes.
Over the centuries, the castle was repeatedly destroyed, restored and rebuilt. It doesn’t look like it did centuries ago.
In 1860, the castle was used as a place of deployment of military units of the Belgian army. It again became a military fortress in 1939-1940, when its underground part was equipped with air conditioning systems, an anti-gas system and reinforced doors.