Dinant - Citadel

The citadel of Dinant towers high above the town. There are four ways up to it: the cabin cable railroad (télépherique) behind the collegiate church, a difficult route consisting of 400 steps next to the cable way, the chair-lift to Mont-Fat and a short walk or via the Rue Adolphe Sax and then to the right by the Rue de Saint Jacques. The present-day citadel was built by the Dutch government in 1821 on the site of the episcopal fortresses which had often been destroyed. A tour through the citadel leads along battlements heavily contested by the Germans and French in 1914, through a bakery and a weapons museum. There is a reconstructed dugout, riddled with bullets, from the First World War.