Dining

Dining is a French-speaking city of Belgium located in Walloon region, chief town of district in Province of Namur.

It is built on Right Bank of the Meuse, with 90 kilometers in the south from Brussels, 25 of Namur and 16 in the north of Givet at the Franco-Belgian border. In 2002, Dining account a population on: 12,763 inhabitants. The valley of the Meuse, its single framework, its many monuments, the tower and the caves of Mount-Conceited person and its cave “the Marvellous one” make of it a high tourist place of the area mosane. Many river cruisings are organized at the beginning of the city of Copères (of Germanic the koper which means “copper”).

Moreover, the city and the arts center very often organize musical events in connection with the Saxophone: International contest Adolphe Sax, Contest for young saxophonists, Days of the harmonies, Gatherings of saxophonists, Sundays of the saxophone, concerts of jazz… but also in the more traditional concerts within the framework of the Festival of the summer mosan which proceeds each year in the city and its area.

Dining is also known in the whole world to have given its name to the art of the manufacture of the objects out of copper and brass, the Dinanderie.

Sections of commune

Anhée, Anseremme, Bouvignes-on-Meuse, Dining, Dréhance, Falmagne, Falmignoul, Foy-Our-Lady, Furfooz, Lisogne, Sorinnes and Thynes and districts of the Shores, Leffe and of Neffe, this last having had the characteristic to belong to two communes, Anseremme and Dining.

History

Dining was one of the 23 Bonnes Cities of the Principauté of Liege.

Two bags of Dining and history on Wallonia

The tragedy of 1914

The city was more tragically famous in 1914 because following a " distort belief sincère" they give the direction in German Atrocités, Horne and Kramer showed that the massacres of civilians (perceived like franc-tireurs) by the German imperial army on the main axis of the invasion in August 1914, struck hard the city of Dining (674 men, women and children passed by the weapons, of the whole districts destroys by fire). However this tragedy which made thousands of dead in a little more than one month mainly in Wallonia (which was located on the axis of invasion), with Tamines and Andenne in particular), but also in France and Flanders discredited Germany, gave the moral advantage to the Allies founded to carry out what they called the " war of the droit" , a central role in the engagement of the USA in 1917 played, explains the exodus of million civilians as of the first combat of May 1940.

That of 1466

It is curious to think that this tragic fate, the city had already known it in 1466 when the count of Flanders, duke of the Brabant, Limbourg and Burgundy took the city which would have insulted it. This year, it was also set fire to and plundered; 800 Dinantais were drowned in the Meuse. In a certain direction one can say that these two terrible bags illustrate one of the axes of the European history according to Fernand Braudel with knowing the competition between the two parts is and western old empire of Charlemagne (France and the Germanic one), of which the third (Lotharingie), haunted according to Jean Lejeune quoting the Burgundian chroniclers, the dreams of size of the Dukes of Burgundy. Jules Michelet devoted very beautiful pages in Dining and Liege and in particular with the dramas on 1466 (Dining) and 1468 (Liege), which deeply register these two cities in the Histoire of Wallonia.

Remarkable places and Monuments

the Abbey Notre-Dame de Leffe, built in 1152.
the Collegial Notre-Dame of Dining (13th - 14th centuries), which raises of the major Patrimoine of Wallonia
the citadel (1818 - 1821), built by the Dutchmen, on a rock with 100 meters above the level of the Meuse.
the Bayard rock, switches rock exceptional which is detached from cliff.

Famous characters

Andre Buzin, animalist painter, was born there in 1946. It is known to be the illustrator many stamps with reasons for birds for the Belgian Post office but also for the Post offices Luxembourg, sénégalaise,…
Joachim Patenier, painter 1485 - 1524
Père Dominique Pire, founder of the Islands of Peace and Nobel Prize of Peace
Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the Saxophone, was born there in 1814.
André Sodar (1829 - 1903), painter landscape designer of the Belgian School, younger brother of François. A street of the city bears its name since 1922.
François Sodar (known as Franz) (1827-1899) portraitist, painter of history and religious subjects of the Belgian School.
Albert Huybrechts was born there in 1899.

Culinary specialities

the Cake of leeks, tart salted containing full fat cheese and of eggs
the couque one of Dining, hard cookie containing honey

Twinnings

a strong bond is maintained with its homonym Frenchwoman. Every 5 years a festive exchange takes place between the cities Breton and Walloon.
Of twinnings with the cities of and of also exists.

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