35 Sights in Liège, Belgium (with Map and Images)

The Sart Tilman open-air museum is a museum of the University of Liège. Founded in 1977, it houses a collection of a hundred monumental open-air works on the 700 hectares of the University of Liège's estate at Sart Tilman. The Sart Tilman open-air museum is co-managed by the University of Liège and the French Community of Belgium.

Wikipedia: Musée en plein air du Sart Tilman (FR), Website

The Convent of the Recollets or Convent of Jerusalem was a convent located in Liège, founded at the end of the fifteenth century and belonging to the Order of the Recollets Friars Minor, Franciscan Order. This convent, located in the Outremeuse district, rue Georges Simenon, along the walls of the City, housed up to more than 80 priests, and participated in the life of the City of Liège until the French Revolution. Completely renovated, the building currently houses the Georges Simenon youth hostel.

Wikipedia: Couvent des Récollets de Liège (FR), Clt Website

The Parc de la Boverie is a park of the city of Liège located between the Meuse and the Dérivation in the administrative district of Outremeuse. It is connected to the Quai Mativa by the Mativa footbridge, spanning the Dérivation, and to the Quai de Rome by the La Belle Liégeoise footbridge across the Meuse.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Boverie (FR), Heritage Website

The Fragnée bridge, nicknamed the Pont des Anges, is a bridge in the city of Liège crossing the Meuse at its confluence with the Ourthe, and at the start of the Dérivation. The part spanning the Ourthe is called the Pont de Fétinne.

Wikipedia: Pont de Fragnée (FR), Heritage Website

The Museum of Walloon Life was founded in 1913. It is one of the richest ethnology museums in the Walloon Region, it is located in the former miners' convent of Liège. While its collections bring together everything that has made and still makes life in Wallonia, it offers, through its journey, an original and complete look at what Wallonia and its inhabitants are like, from the nineteenth century to the present day. A puppet theatre brings to life Tchantchès, Charlemagne, Nanesse, Roland and characters from the traditional Liège repertoire.

Wikipedia: Musée de la Vie wallonne (FR)

The Citadel of Liège was the central fortification of the strategic Belgian city of Liège, Wallonia, until the end of the 19th century. It is located in the Sainte-Walburge neighborhood, 111 metres (364 ft) above the Meuse valley. Together with Dinant, Huy and Namur, the Citadel of Liège forms part of the so-called Meuse Citadels.

Wikipedia: Citadel of Liège (EN)

The Mozin House is a single-family dwelling house located at 402, rue de Campine, in the Sainte-Walburge district of Liège and built between 1957 and 1958. His client, Jules Mozin, is also the architect, who designed his personal home.

Wikipedia: Maison Mozin (FR), Heritage Website

The Botanical Garden of Liège is the former botanical garden of the University of Liège, Belgium. Located not far from the city centre, its park offers a green setting to the inhabitants of the district. There are some rare species of trees from all continents.

Wikipedia: Jardin botanique de Liège (FR)

The Passage Lemonnier is a covered walkway in the centre of Liège in Belgium that houses shops of all types. It connects the Vinâve d'Île to the rue de l'Université and is crossed, in its centre, by the rue Lulay-des-Fèbvres. Built between 1836 and 1838 by the architects Louis-Désiré Lemonnier and Henri-Victor Beaulieu, the Passage Lemonnier, whose name was drawn by lot between the two master builders, is the oldest covered commercial passage in Belgium; it preceded by eight years the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, inaugurated in Brussels in 1847.

Wikipedia: Passage Lemonnier (FR)

The Wittert Museum, the art museum of the University of Liège, preserves more than 65,000 works of various kinds. Located in one of the oldest wings of the university, on the Place du 20-Août in Liège, it changed its name in 2018 and was renovated. New signage has been installed and the exhibition spaces have been completely redesigned so that the semi-permanent exhibition "Wonders and Curiosities of the Art Collections of the University of Liège" can be presented alternately with temporary exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Musée Wittert (FR), Website

The Maison Piot, also known as the Maison des Francs-Maçons by the neighbourhood, is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished achievements of the art nouveau style in Liège. It is the work of the architect Victor Rogister, one of the best representatives of Art Nouveau in Liège for Henri Piot, director of a mechanical factory. The sculptures were made by Oscar Berchmans.

Wikipedia: Maison Piot (FR), Heritage Website

The Church of Saint-Lambert de Grivegnée is a religious building in Liège (Belgium), used for Catholic worship until 2015, then for Protestant worship since 2017. Built in the Gothic Revival style at the end of the nineteenth century, it was part of the former convent of the Oblate missionaries, who have now left. It was the most important Catholic parish church in the Grivegnée district. It is located on rue du Beau-Mur in the Bonne-Femme district, at the foot of the hill of the Fort de la Chartreuse.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Lambert de Grivegnée (FR), Website

The Museum of Public Transport of Wallonia is a museum where various trams, trolleybuses and buses, past and present, are exhibited to the public. The vehicles on display have been driven in the Belgian province of Liège. Trams of the Aachen transport company also ran in Belgium after the First World War, after the annexation of the German area around Eupen.

Wikipedia: Museum voor het Openbaar Vervoer van Wallonië (NL), Website

The Comblen House is an art nouveau style dwelling located in Liège, Belgium. It is not in itself a complete art nouveau construction, but the transformation of a neo-classical style dwelling into an art nouveau building. It is considered one of the most beautiful art nouveau buildings in Liège, both for its façade and for its interior, which is articulated under a skylight.

Wikipedia: Maison Comblen (FR)

The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic church in Liège, Belgium. Consecrated in 1527 and rebuilt by Jacques-Barthélemy Renoz in 1750, it was part of the Augustinian convent before it was suppressed after the French Revolution on September 1, 1796.

Wikipedia: Église du Saint-Sacrement de Liège (FR), Heritage Website

The House of Doctor Janssens-Lycops is one of the most beautiful art nouveau style house achievements in Liège, Belgium. It was built between 1902 and 1903 by Paul Jaspar, the initiator of Art Nouveau in the Ardent City.

Wikipedia: Maison du docteur Janssens-Lycops (FR)

The Church of Saint-Pholien is a Roman Catholic church located in the Outremeuse district of Liège, Belgium, at the eastern end of the Boulevard de la Constitution. A first church of the twelfth century was rebuilt several times. The current building dates from 1914. The church is placed under the patronage of Saint Feuillen de Fosses.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Pholien de Liège (FR), Website

The Church of Saint-Servais is a Roman Catholic church located on rue Fond Saint-Servais in the Pierreuse district near the Liège-Saint-Lambert train station in Liège, Belgium. The first church was founded in the tenth century. It has been rebuilt and modified several times over the centuries and is one of the oldest churches in the city.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Servais de Liège (FR), Heritage Website

The Maison de la science is a museum of the University of Liège, established in Liège, Belgium, offering a series of demonstrations, automated showcases whose aim is to introduce people to science while having fun. It highlights the concrete applications of the discoveries made in biology, chemistry and physics.

Wikipedia: Maison de la science (FR), Website, Opening Hours

The church of Saint-Remacle-au-Pont, located in the district of Amercœur, is one of the oldest parish churches in Liège. It was so named to distinguish it from Saint-Remacle-au-Mont, located near Saint-Martin.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Remacle-au-Pont de Liège (FR), Website, Heritage Website

The Chapel of Saint-Roch en Volière is a Catholic religious building built in 1558 for the convent of the Cellite friars in Liège. The chapel was renovated and relics of Saint Roch were installed in 1682 and Saint Alexis in 1685.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Saint-Roch en Volière (FR)

The Interallied Memorial at Cointe is a war memorial built after World War I in Liège, Belgium. The memorial is a complex consisting of the Sacré-Cœur church as a religious building and a cenotaph with a tower as a secular monument.

Wikipedia: Interallied Memorial of Cointe (EN)

The Church of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Lourdes is located on the heights of Liège in the Cointe district. It is part of the Interallied Memorial. It is often referred to as a basilica but it has never received this title. This popular confusion is certainly due to its imposing character and unusual style.

Wikipedia: Église du Sacré-Cœur et Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes (FR)

The Terrasses des Minimes is a green space in Liège that is part of the Coteaux de la Citadelle complex. An integral part of the historic centre of the city, it is a rich place from the point of view of historical heritage.

Wikipedia: Terrasses des Minimes (FR)

The Church of St. Walburga is a Roman Catholic church located in the Sainte-Walburge district on the heights of the city of Liège, Belgium. The church, built in 1879, is the second building to succeed an old maladrerie chapel erected in the fourteenth century. It is the place of worship of the Catholic parish.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Walburge de Liège (FR)

The Cybernetic Tower of Liège is a monumental work by the Franco-Hungarian artist Nicolas Schöffer from 1961. It is located in the Parc de la Boverie in Liège, Belgium, near the Palais des Congrès, and was reopened in May 2016, more than 45 years after it had been deactivated. It is the artist's most monumental work.

Wikipedia: Tour cybernétique de Liège (FR)

The Church of Sainte-Véronique is a Roman Catholic church in Liège, Belgium. Located on Place Sainte-Véronique in the Avroy district, the current church was built in 1848, replacing a seventeenth-century building whose foundations date back to the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Véronique de Liège (FR)

The Hôtel Somzé is a former private mansion from the early eighteenth century located in Liège, Belgium, at numbers 94-96 de Féronstrée. Since 2018, it has housed the Alderman for Finance, Budget and Religions, Urban Planning and Heritage, Real Estate Policy, Gender Equality and Animal Welfare.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Somzé (FR), Heritage Since

The Moxhon Tower, also known as the Moxhon Tower or the Moxhon Tower, is a building located in the Liège district of Saint-Laurent between Mont Saint-Martin and Thier de la Fontaine. This tower is the only one preserved among those that were part of the first ramparts of the city of Liège.

Wikipedia: Tour des Moxhons (FR), Heritage Website

La Boverie is a museum in the city of Liège in Belgium. It opened in May 2016. It is housed in the former Palais des beaux-arts de Liège, built in the Parc de la Boverie for the Liège International in 1905. The building previously housed the prints and drawings collections (1952-1980) of the city's Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Walloon art collections of the city's Académie royale des beaux-arts (1970s-1980), before becoming the Musée d'art moderne from 1980 to 2011. MMAC was merged with the prints, drawings and Walloon collections in 2011 to form a new single collection known as the 'musée des Beaux-Arts'.

Wikipedia: La Boverie (EN), Website

St Martin's Basilica in Liège, is a Roman Catholic church situated on the Publémont hill in the city centre. It was initially built as a Romanesque structure in the 10th century, which in 1246 held the first celebration of an annual 'Fête-Dieu', the festival later known as Corpus Christi. This structure was replaced by a Gothic building in the 16th century. Up until the Liège Revolution it was one of the seven collegiate churches of Liège.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Basilica, Liège (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Pont Levant des Aguesses, or Pont Levant Marcotty or simply Pont Marcotty, is a drawbridge located over the Canal de l'Ourthe. The structure was built in 1852 and classified as a monument on 20 May 1983.

Wikipedia: Pont-levant des Aguesses (FR)

St James's Church is a church dedicated to James the Less in the Belgian city of Liège, founded in 1015 by bishop Baldrick II as the church for a Benedictine abbey. On the demolition of St Peter's Church it became one of the seven collegiate churches in the city. Its chapter was abolished in 1801 and the church converted into a parish church.

Wikipedia: St James's Church, Liège (EN), Website

The Jean-Bernard Lejeune Garden is a garden in the city of Liège, Belgium, laid out in the early 1970s. Crossed by the rue Louvrex, it is located not far from the city centre, above a tunnel serving as an exit to the A602-E25 motorway.

Wikipedia: Jardin Jean-Bernard Lejeune (FR)

The Albert I Memorial stands at the tip of the island of Monsin, which separates the Meuse from the Albert Canal downstream from Liège. It was inaugurated by Leopold III in August 1939 in memory of Albert I, who had himself inaugurated the canal works on 31 May 1930. The architect was Joseph Moutschen.

Wikipedia: Mémorial du canal Albert 1er à Liège (FR)