Wallonie

The Dinant Dam

Wallonie

The Dinant Dam

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The Dinant Dam

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Location: Namur, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Oscar 👩🏻‍🌾, de wandelaar🥾

June 16, 2022

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If you cross here, you will walk more calmly to Dinant.

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Stephan N

October 9, 2025

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It all began in the year 1240, when the monks of the Belgian monastery Notre-Dame de Leffe started brewing beer. For a long time, they produced their own abbey beer. During the French Revolution, however, the monastery was closed. It wasn't until 1929 that the monastery was revived. With this, the monks also took up their brewing craft again. A good twenty years later, the brothers Nys and Albert Lootvoet began to produce beer according to the recipe of the Leffe Abbey. Meanwhile, however, their company belongs to the brewing giant Anheuser-Bush InBev.
Source:
bierpedia.org/bier/leffe-blonde

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Stephan N

October 9, 2025

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In 1152, Henry the Blind, Count of Namur, handed over the church of Leffe to the Premonstratensians of Floreffe. The monastery that emerged from this donation became an abbey in 1200. It was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries and plundered by the revolutionaries in 1794. In 1816, the current buildings were sold and converted into workshops.

They were bought back in 1903 by French Premonstratensians, who were in exile at the time, and restored from 1931 by their Flemish confreres from Tongerlo, who rebuilt the abbey.

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