226 Route 19. DINANT. From Namur

ruined tower of Créve-Coeur here in connection with the siege of
the town by the French in 1554. Three beautiful women, left as
the sole survivors after the death of their husbands with the rest
of the garrison, are said to have thrown themselves from the sum-
mit of the tower in sight of the besiegers, and to have been dashed
to pieces on the rocks below.

171/. M. Dinant. — Hotels. Héret pe 1a Tére-p’Or, Grand’ Place,
with terraced gardens in the rocks, 110 R. from 3'/2, B. 41/s, D. 31/2, pens.
from 8 fr.; H6éret prs Postes, on the left bank of the Meuse, near the
station, 70 R. from 4, B. 11/2, D. 4, pens. from 8 fr.; both closed in winter.
— Héret Detimoy, on the Meuse, 30 R. at 3-5, B.1, D. 31/2, pens. 8-40 fr.,
good, patronized by English travellers; Horen pes ArpENNES, Rue Léopold,
100 R. from 2, B. 4, D. 21/2, pens. 5-40 fr , good. — At the station: Hor. pu
Norv, R. 21/28, B. 1, D. 2!/2, pens. 6-7 fr.; Hiv. Carpentier, R. 3-4,
B. 1, D. 21/2 fr.; Hor. pe ra Gane, R. from 2, B. 3/,, D. 2, pens. 6-7 fr.

Carriages at the station, the Hétel des Postes, etc. (bargaining ad-
visable): to Frey: (p. 227), with one horse 5, with two horses 8 fr.

Steamboats. To WVamur, see p. 224. — To Hastitre (p. 227) twice daily
from the middle of July to the middle of Sept. (80c.; pleasant trip). The
steamers start from the right bank, beside the bridge.

River Baths on the Meuse Promenade, above the bridge. — Post Office,
Rue Grande. — Concerts in the Grand’ Place and in the Casino (p. 227).

The ‘Couques de Dinan? are cakes not unlike gingerbread.

Dinant (810 ft.), a town with 7700 inhab., is picturesquely
situated on the right bank of the Meuse, at the base of barren
limestone cliffs, which are crowned by a ruined fortress. The town,
which belonged to the bishopric of Litge from the Hohenstaufen
period, was at the height of its prosperity in the 13th, 14th, and
{5th cent., when its ‘dinanderies’, or chased copper and brass wares
were in high repute. In 1466 Philippe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy,
accompanied by his son Charles the Bold, besieged and took Dinant,
and is said to have caused 800 of the population to be drowned in
the Meuse (‘le sac de Dinant’). In 1554 the town was taken by storm
by the French under the Duc de Nevers, and plundered. In 1675
it was again taken by the French.

The railway-station is on the left bank of the Meuse. On quit-
ting it we turn to the right and after a few paces we either cross the
bridge to the left to the (8 min.) Grand’ Place in the town, or we
may keep to the right by the Philippeville road for 10 min. more,
then cross the light railway to the left, and in a few yards to the
right reach the waiting-room over the entrance to the Grottes de
Rampaine or Nouvelles Grottes de Dinant, a number of stalactite
caverns discovered in 1904 (adm. 2'/p fr.; the visit takes 3/4 hr. ).

The church of Notre Dame (restored in 1855), a handsome edifice
of the 13th cent. in the Gothic style, but with a few remaining traces
of the transition period, is situated in the Grand’ Place. The portals
are worthy of notice. The tower is upwards of 200 ft. in height. —
The Rue Adolophe-Sax, running to the N. (left) from the Grand’
Place, reaches in 2 min. the Rue St. Jacques (see p. 227; on the
right). The main thoroughfare, the Rue Grande, continued by