Dinant - Rocher Bayard

The Rue Grande continues southwards as the Rue Léopold and, at the end of the town, passes between the rocks of the high plateau and the famous Rocher Bayard, a rocky needle some 40m/131ft high, rising steeply up from the river. Bayard was the name of the horse of the legendary four sons of Haimon. Fleeing from Charlemagne they all crossed the river in one mighty jump, thereby splitting the rocky needle with its hooves. In fact a thoroughfare was blown through the rocks in 1698.