This tour takes you in the footsteps of two pilgrimages that were very important at the time: one goes back to the Middle Ages and the other to the 17th century. What do they have in common? The coming of the great ones of this world to pray and meditate.
To these, it was a Frankish king, Pépin de Herstal, who had a villa built near the Lesse river to stay as close as possible to Saint Hadelin and his monastery. This villa is the origin of the Château de Vêves, also called Château de Celles. But the story does not stop there... In the 17th century, on the land of the castellan of Vêves, on the other side of the hill, an image of the Virgin is discovered in the hollow of a tree... then miracles follow. This was the beginning of the pilgrimage to Foy Notre-Dame for which the Archdukes of Austria, who were fond of the Marian cult, came.
To reach the village of Foy Notre-Dame from Dinant, it is possible to take a pilgrimage path through the countryside from the old casino (see map). However, it is extremely steep at first and much of it can only be walked.
This route is more fully described in a discovery brochure Detours and other pilgrimages in Namur (FR).
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