Taverne-bowling du Plateau

Finished in 1923, 1,104 French soldiers are buried here who died during battles in the Dinant region between 15 and 23 August 1914. On the right side of the cemetery, behind the French flag, there are 30 tombs of British, New Zealand and French soldiers who died during the Second World War.

On a cliff, more than 100 m above the River Meuse, it offers spectacular views of the town and countryside. A fortification may have stood on this spot as long ago as the fourth century, and the Bishop Prince of Liège certainly ordered the construction of a fortress on this spot in 1051, but the present structure dates to the early 19th century. It is reached from the town either by cable car or by the 408 steps cut into the hillside. The citadel plays host to a small Arms Museum and several interesting art pieces that reveal the glorious past of this Meuse town.

The church dominating the city's riverbank stands in the place where a previous Romanesque one was destroyed by rocks falling from the cliff in 1227. The collegiate church took many centuries to be completed, during which the original plan to build two towers was abandoned in favour of the single one with the onion dome we see today. This is why the church's facade is so unusually tall. The interior is even more striking, almost as tall as wide and twice as long, flanked by columns appearing both sleek in comparison to the structure and thick in human scale. The interior is kept in the simple Gothic style characteristic for the Meuse region - this is thanks to the restoration work in the nineteenth century to bring stylistic uniformity to the interior. After the church's destruction in the First World War, the church was rebuilt verbatim to how it looked like before the war.

The house of Monsieur Sax contains a small interpretation centre on the inventor of the saxophone. A life-size statue of the inventor sits on a bench in front of the house.

Wellness centre with warm baths, saunas, lounge, terrace and garden. Free private parking space.