See also: Walk (homonymy)

Walk-the-Ladies (as a Walloon Måtche-the-Ladies ) is a section of the Belgian city of Namur located in Walloon region in the Province of Namur.

It was a commune with whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

With eight kilometers downstream from Namur, along the Meuse, Walk-the-Ladies is a peaceful city which shelters since the 12th century the Abbaye Notre-Dame of the Fish pond.

Better known for its vertical needles and its cliffs appraisals of the mountaineers, it is during the rise of the one of them that the king Albert  I {{er}} of Belgium unscrewed accidentally the February 17th 1934. This accident was prone to polemic: some transfer there the sign of a plot, others, that of an assassination. A commemoration to honor the king knight with the Front of Yser of 1916 is perpetuated at the date birthday of this tragedy.

Climbing

After Freyr, Walk-The-Ladies is the second site in importance of the country. This splendid and imposing rock group, extends on 2 km 300 along left bank from the Meuse, downstream from Namur. One counts 9 rocks, upstream camp commando, 7 are located inside the camp and 7 downstream from the camp On the whole, 23 rocks from 20 to 80 meters height, which comprise more than 400 ways for the majority athletic, they are held on a dolomitic limestone, very worked and sifted holes. Other rocks: of King Albert, Black Dihedron and of Popeye, located in the Central part , royal field. Some overhang the road and/or the railroad, so is prohibited with the practice of the climbing. Still let us announce, beautiful Via ferrata which is held inside the camp commando and which starts close to the Albert refuge 1st.

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