Marche-les-Dames Attractions

About 2km/1.25mi southwest of Franc-Waret we pass through Gelbressée where Juan of Austria set up his headquarters during the siege of Namur in 1578. A narrow road leads south from here to Marche-les-Dames on the Meuse where a Cistercian abbey was founded in the 13th century. It is possible to return to Namur on the road along the bank of the river from Marche-les-Dames. Shortly after leaving the village can be seen the 70m/230ft high rock, the Rocher du Roi Albert, or "Rocher Fatale", from which King Albert I fell to his death on February 17, 1934.