Dinant, a small riverside town in Belgium

Dinant is enriched by the agricultural opportunities offered by the fertile land on the plateau that overlooks it. Within the city, the production of brassware is a traditional craft that benefits from the presence of a wide and, at this point, easily navigable river that facilitates the delivery of raw materials and the distribution of the finished product to the artisans’ workshops. Another traditional source of wealth is the limestone cliffs that overlook the city, which support a high-end quarrying industry, producing black marble and bluestone, and distribution also benefits from the proximity of a relatively wide and deep river.