Dinant (about 14 000 inhabitants), is a small town of Wallonia in the province of Namur, located 15 km from the border with France and 30 km south of Namur, on the right bank of the Maas (Meuse).

The first historical document that mentions Dinant goes back to the seventh century, following a castle was built, and from 11th century, the village, thanks to its strategic position and to build a stone bridge on the Meuse, had a rapid development, becoming one of 23 "bonnes villes" (major cities) of the diocese of Liège. The town became important from a commercial point of view and in the fourteenth century was the largest center of processing of copper, specializing in the manufacture of objects of brass called "dinanderies."

Today the city of Dinant is a popular tourist center, one of the most important tourist destinations of the Ardennes. At Dinant, in 1814, was born Adolphe Sax, a manufacturer of musical instruments and inventor of the saxophone. 

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