# Dinant

Indexable Dinant Meuse gateway planner for source-backed route decisions.

## Core routes
- [Dinant Short Break Planner](https://dinant.app/): A decision-led start page for matching Dinant's Meuse riverfront, Citadel, Collegiate Church, saxophone identity, Leffe, caves, castles, and Ardennes gateway role to the right trip shape.
- [Brussels to Dinant](https://dinant.app/brussels-to-dinant/): An arrival guide for deciding when Dinant is a clean Brussels rail day, when Namur helps, and when the river-city plan needs overnight margin.
- [One-Night Dinant Itinerary](https://dinant.app/one-night-itinerary/): A practical one-night sequence that protects the Meuse axis, Citadel timing, riverside evening, and one gateway extension without overloading the stay.
- [Where to Stay in Dinant](https://dinant.app/where-to-stay/): A stay-base decision guide for choosing between station efficiency, riverfront immersion, old-center access, Leffe-side evening, and quieter Meuse-edge logic.
- [Dinant Citadel, Collegiate Church, and the Meuse](https://dinant.app/citadel-collegiate-church-and-meuse/): A core-axis guide for understanding Dinant's cliff, fortress, church, bridge, riverfront, and station-to-center practicality before adding extra activities.
- [Dinant Sax, Leffe, and Riverside Evening](https://dinant.app/sax-leffe-and-riverside/): A culture-and-evening guide for using saxophone identity, Leffe context, and the riverfront to support a fuller Dinant route.
- [Dinant as an Ardennes Gateway](https://dinant.app/ardennes-gateway-caves-and-castles/): A gateway decision guide for caves, castles, river activities, and deeper Ardennes handoffs without turning Dinant into a whole-region substitute.

## Narrative pillars
- Meuse Gateway: Dinant should read as a narrow Meuse gateway where river, cliffs, bridge, station, and Ardennes handoff decide whether the reader needs a focused day or a deeper regional trip.
- Citadel And Church Axis: The Citadel, Collegiate Church, cliffs, bridge, and riverfront create Dinant's main vertical and civic-scenic axis, so the route should be read before extra activities are added.
- Rail Day Constraint: Dinant can work as a rail day only when the page protects station practicality, one main axis, return margin, and a clear reason not to add every cave, castle, cruise, and viewpoint.
- Sax And Beer: Adolphe Sax and Leffe give Dinant cultural and evening identity beyond scenery, but they should support the river-city frame rather than turning the trip into a novelty or beer stop.
- Caves, Castles, And River: Caves, Freyr, kayaking, cruises, and nearby castles are extension decisions that can improve an overnight or car route, not mandatory proof that Dinant covers the whole Ardennes.
- Memory Restraint: Dinant's dramatic scenery and difficult history need restrained language, with wartime or serious context separated from scenic excitement and attraction-list pacing.

## Editorial judgements
- Gateway, not the whole Ardennes (https://dinant.app/): Dinant is useful when the guide treats the Meuse riverfront, Citadel, church, Sax, Leffe, and gateway extensions as a focused trip shape, not as a shortcut to the entire Ardennes.
- Return margin decides the rail day (https://dinant.app/brussels-to-dinant/): From Brussels, Dinant works as a day only when the plan protects the station, riverfront axis, Citadel timing, and return margin before adding caves, beer, or gateway ambitions.
- One night needs one extension (https://dinant.app/one-night-itinerary/): A one-night Dinant route should establish the Meuse axis, protect the evening, and choose one second-morning extension such as Leffe, cave, river, or nearby castle context.
- The base defines the evening (https://dinant.app/where-to-stay/): Where to stay in Dinant should explain whether the reader needs station convenience, riverfront identity, old-center access, Leffe-side evening, or a gateway extension before naming any hotel style.
- Read the axis before the add-ons (https://dinant.app/citadel-collegiate-church-and-meuse/): The Citadel, Collegiate Church, cliffs, bridge, and Meuse riverfront should be treated as Dinant's core civic-scenic axis before the page adds caves, beer, or castles.
- Culture, not novelty (https://dinant.app/sax-leffe-and-riverside/): Adolphe Sax and Leffe should deepen Dinant's identity and evening rhythm without making the city a saxophone novelty stop or beer-only product.
- Gateway is a filter (https://dinant.app/ardennes-gateway-caves-and-castles/): Gateway content should decide whether caves, Freyr, kayaking, cruises, castles, or deeper Ardennes bases actually improve this trip, not make every extension mandatory.

## Editorial depth
- The fit decision is river city or gateway (https://dinant.app/): The Dinant start page should decide whether the reader wants a focused Meuse river city with cliff, Citadel, church, Sax, and Leffe, or a gateway into deeper Ardennes planning.
- The arrival page protects the rail day (https://dinant.app/brussels-to-dinant/): The Brussels-to-Dinant page should use rail access to set a realistic scope before the reader starts adding Citadel time, river activities, Leffe, caves, or gateway extensions.
- The overnight gives the river city room (https://dinant.app/one-night-itinerary/): The one-night Dinant itinerary should protect the first afternoon's core axis, let the riverfront evening breathe, and choose one second-morning extension rather than many.
- The base has to support the river shape (https://dinant.app/where-to-stay/): The where-to-stay page should make each Dinant base perform a job: station efficiency, riverfront immersion, old-center access, Leffe-side evening, or gateway extension margin.
- The core axis carries the city (https://dinant.app/citadel-collegiate-church-and-meuse/): The Citadel, Collegiate Church, bridge, cliffs, and Meuse page should explain Dinant's main vertical and river logic before the reader adds outward activities.
- Culture and evening prevent scenery-only Dinant (https://dinant.app/sax-leffe-and-riverside/): The Sax, Leffe, and riverside page should give Dinant cultural and evening identity beyond the cliff view while staying grounded in place-specific context.
- Gateway choices are filters, not trophies (https://dinant.app/ardennes-gateway-caves-and-castles/): The gateway page should decide which cave, castle, cruise, kayak, or deeper Ardennes handoff improves the trip after the core Dinant route is already honest.

## Machine surfaces
- https://dinant.app/discoverability.json
- https://dinant.app/schema.json
- https://dinant.app/network-registry.json