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It stands on a height above the left bank of the river 14 miles (22 km) south of the coast at Dinard. It has preserved many <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" data-term="medieval" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medieval" data-type="MW">medieval</a> timbered houses, as well as its fine 18th-century granite buildings, its Gothic bridge, and its 15th-century belfry, the Tour de l鈥橦orloge. The walls of the town, dating from the 11th century, survived two 14th-century attacks by the English. An imposing granite castle, known as the <span id="ref943635"></span>Ch芒teau de la Duchesse Anne, was built by the dukes of Brittany in the 14th and 15th centuries. Dinan is a market and small-industries (electronics, food-processing) town. It is also a tourist centre. Pop. 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