Orchimont

Orchimont stands on a steep spur above a wooded valley near the Semois. A fortress was recorded here by the end of the tenth century, and in the Middle Ages the walled town served as a centre of the lower Semois country. The castle was repeatedly caught in frontier wars. In 1635, as Louis XIII's army entered the Spanish Netherlands, Orchimont fell by assault; the castle was plundered, burned and dismantled.