10 Interesting Dinant Facts

Dinant Facts:

1. The name Dinant comes from the Celtic Divo-Nanto, meaning “Sacred Valley” or “Divine Valley”.

2. Adolphe Saxe, born in Dinant, the invented the saxophone.

3. The first mention of Dinant as a settlement dates from the 7th century.

4. The Population of Dinant is 111,566, as of 2018.

5. Dinant is a Walloon city and municipality located on the River Meuse, in the Belgian province of Namur.

6. Dinant is Twinned with: Chios, Greece; Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; Hoddesdon, England; Caldas da Rainha, Portugal & Dinan, France.

7. Dinant is a municipality in the Belgian province of Namur.

8. a bathtub regatta is an annual event in Dinant.

9. The couque de Dinant is Europe’s hardest biscuit.

10. Dinant hosts the Saint-Vincent and Saint-Anne sites of the CHU UCLouvain Namur university hospital.