The Collegiate Church of Our Lady (''french: Collégiale Notre Dame de Dinant'') is a 13th-century
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
cathedral in
Dinant
Dinant () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south ...
, a city in
Waloon Belgium
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, on the banks of the
River Meuse
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. The
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.
Gallery
File:20090816 dinant08.jpg, Church exterior
File:0 Dinant - Collégiale N.-D. de l'Assomption et la citadelle (1).JPG, Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame in Dinant, Belgium
File:The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame Dinant.jpg, Interior
File:0 Dinant - La Collégiale N.-D. de l'Assomption et la Meuse (1).JPG, From above
File:Dinant Collégiale R01.jpg
File:Stained glass, Notre Dame de Dinant, Dinant, Belgium.jpg
References
External links
The Collegiate Church of Our Lady on TripAdvisor
The Collegiate Church of Our Lady on Michelin Guides
Gothic architecture in Belgium
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Belgium
Churches in Namur (province)
Dinant
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