We walked around the southern part of the town, ate lunch, and encountered a most grateful resident who gave us her St. Christopher medal and other precious's as thanks for U.S. assistance in WWII, which she vividly remembers. Afterwards we took the cable car to tour the citadel.
Below: view from the citadel looking south up the Meuse.
Below is the view from the citadel looking north down the Meuse towards Namur..
Looking westerly.
Dinant is the birthplace and home of a guy named Adolphe Sax. Guess what he invented?
They have turned his home and workshop into a museum to his many inventions. His house is about a block north of the citadel, down in the village.
2 comments:
I looooove these pictures! I recognize this place, yes? It looks a lot like the castle we went to on the hill... no wait... that's all the castles in Europe! Haha, but I remember there was a preshow thing we watched (before we went up to the castle) and a sword came down out of the ceiling... is that the same one?
Nope, you are thinking about the castle at Bouillon, where we watched the show about Peter the Hermit and Godfrey leading the first crusade, then crossed the river and went up to the castle, and watched the hawk/bird/owl show. This is a very different place, although only about 25 miles from Bouillon. I'd never been to Dinant before.
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