Dinant

Dinant, a Belgian town in the province of Namur, -and 14 miles S. of it, on the Meuse, its situation having that picturesqueness which is characteristic of the riverside towns of the Belgian Ardennes. The place is important in the new scheme of frontier defence, and has borne its share in the wars of the past. The town is noted for its gingerbread (gateau de Dinant). The town hall was once the palace of the Princes of Liege.