44 Sights in Liège, Belgium (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in Belgium Sightseeing Tours in Liège1. Citadel of Liège
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. The first citadel was built on the heights overlooking the city in 1255. It was rebuilt in a pentagonal shape by Prince-Bishop Maximilian Henry of Bavaria in 1650. This fortress was destroyed by France shortly afterwards, then rebuilt in 1684. During the Napoleonic Wars it was given five bastions in the style of Vauban. By the late 19th century the citadel had become obsolete as a fort, replaced by the twelve forts of the Fortified Position of Liège, though it continued in use as a barracks and as a command post for the Fortified Position, contributing to the country's National Redoubt. In the 1970s the citadel was largely destroyed by the construction of a hospital on the site. The southern walls remain. An area on the north side is a memorial to Belgians executed in the citadel by German occupiers in World Wars I and II, while 20th-century bunkers remain on the south side.
2. Attaque du 29 mai 2018
On 29 May 2018, Benjamin Herman, a prisoner on temporary leave from prison, stabbed two female police officers, took their guns, shot and killed them and a civilian in Liège, Belgium. The gunman took a woman hostage before he was killed by police. The attacker had since 2017 been suspected of having been radicalised in prison after converting to Islam, and was reported to be part of the entourage of a prison Islamist recruiter. The method of the attack was said by investigators to match and be specifically encouraged by the Islamic State which claimed the attack. Prosecutors say they are treating the attacks as "terrorist murder". The attack is treated as "jihadist terrorism" by Europol.
3. Collégiale Saint-Barthélemy
The Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew is an historical building in Liège, Belgium. Founded outside the city walls, it was built in coal sandstone, starting in the late 11th century and lasting until the late 12th century. It underwent, like most ancient religious buildings, modifications through the centuries. Nevertheless, the Meuse Romanesque—Ottonian architecture character of its architecture remained deeply rooted. The 18th century saw the addition of two more aisles, the opening of a neoclassical portal in the walls of the westwork, and the French Baroque redecoration of the interior. The interior of the western section has recently been restored back to the original style.
4. La Boverie
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'.
5. Passage Lemonnier
The passage de Lemonnier is a covered passage in the center 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 center, by the rue Lulay-des-Fèbvres. Built between 1836 and 1838 by architects Louis-Désiré Lemonnier and Henri-Victor Beaulieu, the Passage Lemonnier, whose name was chosen by lot between the two master builders, is the oldest covered commercial passage in Belgium; it precedes by eight years the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert of the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar inaugurated in Brussels in 1847.
6. Musée Wittert
Art museum of the University of Liège, the Wittert Museum preserves more than 65,000 works of various kinds. Located in one of the oldest wings of the university, Place du 20-Août in Liège, it changed its name in 2018 and underwent renovations. New signage has been installed and the exhibition spaces have been completely redesigned so as to be able to alternate between the semi-permanent exhibition "Wonders and curiosities of the art collections of the University of Liège" and temporary exhibitions.
7. Basilique Saint-Martin
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. In 1886 it was promoted to the rank of minor basilica.
8. Église Saint-Lambert
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. Neo-Gothic style and built at the end of the nineteenth century, it was part of the former convent of the Oblate missionaries, now gone. It was the most important Catholic parish church in the Grivegnée district. It is located rue du Beau-Mur in the Bonne-Femme district, at the foot of the hill of Fort de la Chartreuse.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Lambert de Grivegnée (FR), Website, Architect Wikipedia
9. Collégiale Sainte-Croix
Holy Cross Church is a church in Liège, Belgium, located on place Verte in the corner of rue Sainte-Croix and rue Haute-Sauvenière. It was founded between 976 and 986 by bishop Notger and held the original St Hubert's Key, previously in the treasury of St Peter's Church. Previously a collegiate church, its chapter of secular canons was suppressed in 1797 following the Liège Revolution. The church itself was handed back for use as a worship space in 1802.
10. Dieudonné Lambrecht
Dieudonné Lambrecht, born May 4, 1882 in the district of Thier-à-Liège in Liège, and shot by the Germans on April 18, 1916 at the Chartreuse de Liège, was an intelligence agent during the First World War. He was the founder and leader of the Allied intelligence network Lambrecht which was taken over by Walthère Dewé. This White Lady network will be reactivated during the Second World War under the name of Clarence.
11. Église de l'abbaye de la Paix Notre-Dame
The Abbaye de la Paix Notre-Dame de Liège is a Benedictine abbey in Liège founded in 1627 and located at 52-54 Boulevard d'Avroy. The founding nuns of the Benedictine Congregation of Peace of Our Lady came from Namur. The establishment continued beyond a 45-year hiatus following the French Revolution. The abbey was built according to the plans of an original Mons nun, Antoinette Desmoulins, from 1686 to 1690.
12. Maison Comblen
Maison Commer is an Art Nouveau style home located in Liège, Belgium. It is not in itself a complete Art Nouveau construction but the transformation of a neo-classical style home into an Art Nouveau building. It is considered one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau style achievements in Liège both for its facade and for its interior articulating under a well of light.
13. Musée des Transports en commun de Wallonie
The Museum of Public Transport of Wallonia is a museum where various trams, trolley buses and buses, from the past and present, are exhibited to the public. The exhibited vehicles have driven in the Belgian province of Liège. Trams from the Aachen transport company also drove 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
14. Maison Piot
The Maison Piot also called Maison des Francs-Maçons by the neighborhood 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.
15. Opéra Royal de Wallonie
The Opéra royal de Wallonie is a Belgian Opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. Together with La Monnaie and the Vlaamse Opera, the Opéra royal, as it is colloquially known, is one of the three major opera houses in Belgium. From the beginning, the institution occupied the Théâtre royal in Liège, a building loaned by the city.
16. Chapelle des Filles de la Croix
The convent of the Capucines located in Hors-Château in Liège, was founded in 1626, at the corner of the impasse du Champion. The convent church was built in 1646. Sold during the Revolution, it was again occupied by the Daughters of the Cross after being privately owned. It is currently a normal school and the middle school of Marie-Thérèse.
17. Église Saint-Jacques
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.
18. Musée en plein air - Sart Tilman
The outdoor museum in Sart Tilman is a museum of the University of Liège. Founded in 1977, it houses a collection of a hundred outdoor monumental works on the 700 hectares of the Domaine de l'Université de Liège in Sart Tilman. The outdoor museum of Sart Tilman is co -managed by the University of Liège and the French Community of Belgium.
19. Église Saint-Pholien
The Church of Saint-Pholien is a Roman Catholic church in the Outremeuse district of Liège, Belgium, at the eastern end of the Boulevard de la Constitution. A first church of the twelfth century is 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, Architect Wikipedia
20. Église Saint-Servais
The Saint-Servais church is a Catholic religious building located rue Fonde Saint-Servais in the Pierreuse district near the Liège-Saint-Lambert station, in Liège (Belgium). The first church was founded in the 10th century. Several times rebuilt and modified over the centuries it is one of the oldest churches in the city.
21. Parc de la Boverie
The Parc de la Boverie is a park in the city of Liège located between the Meuse and the Dérivation rivers in the administrative district of Outremeuse. It is connected to the Quai Mativa by the Mativa footbridge, spanning the Derivation, and to the Quai de Rome by the La Belle Liégeoise footbridge across the Meuse.
22. Église du Sacré-Cœur et Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
The Church of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Lourdes is located on the heights of Liège in the district of Cointe. It is part of the Inter-Allied 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), Architect Wikipedia
23. Aquarium & Museum
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 purpose is to discover science while having fun. It concretely highlights the applications of discoveries made in biology, chemistry and physics.
24. Église Saint-André
The Saint-André church is a church of Liège located on the market place. It was from the 14th century to the French Revolution, with Saint-Gangulphe, the church of the Commandery of the Teutonic Order of Saint-André, where the great commander of the great commandery of the old Joncs of Alden- Biezen.
25. Mémorial Albert Ier
The Albert I memorial rises at the tip of Monsin Island which separates the Meuse from the Albert canal downstream from Liège. He was inaugurated by Léopold III in August 1939 in memory of Albert I, who had himself inaugurated the work of the canal on May 31, 1930. The architect is Joseph Moutschen.
26. Église Sainte-Walburge
The Church of Sainte-Walburge is a Roman Catholic church located in the Sainte-Walburge district of the city of Liège, Belgium. The church, built in 1879, is the second building succeeding an old chapel of sickness erected in the fourteenth century. It is the place of worship of the Catholic parish.
27. Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception
The Notre-Dame-de-L'Ammaculate-Conception church, also known as the Redemptoristes church, Carmelite Church and Saint-Gérard church, is a 15th century church in the baroque style located in the outstanding district Castle in Liège. It was the church of the old outspoken Carmelite convent.
Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception de Liège (FR)
28. Maison du Léopard
The Leopard House dating from the 15th century is one of the oldest civil buildings in wooden pan of wood preserved in their quasi-integrality in Wallonia. Located in Liège in Belgium, it is landlocked between FéronStrée and rue des Airs, a few tens of meters from the Place du Marché.
29. Monument Interallié
The Inter-Allied Memorial is a memorial built after the First World War in Liège, Belgium. The memorial consists of the Church of the Sacred Heart as a religious building and a tower as a monument civil. Il commemorates the participation of the Allies in the First World War.
30. Église Sainte-Véronique
The Sainte-Véronique Church is a Catholic religious building of Liège (Belgium). Located at Place Sainte-Véronique in the district of Avroy, the current church was built in 1848, replacing a building from the 17th century whose foundations date back to the Middle Ages.
31. Parc de Cointe
The Parc communal de Cointe is a public park in Liège, located in the administrative district of Cointe. The park is divided into 3 zones; the sports and games plain, the landscaped park between the plain and the boulevard Kleyer and the wooded area below this boulevard.
32. Église du Saint-Sacrement
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 its suppression after the French Revolution on September 1, 1796.
Wikipedia: Église du Saint-Sacrement de Liège (FR), Architect Wikipedia
33. Archéoforum
The Archéoforum is an archaeological museum on place Saint-Lambert in Liège in Belgium. It is centered on the ruins of Saint Lambert's Cathedral and also includes the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa as well as displaying objects from the Mesolithic onward.
34. Jardin botanique
The Liège botanical garden is the old botanical garden of the University of Liège, Belgium. Located not far from the city center, its park offers a green setting to residents of the neighborhood. There are some rare species of trees from all continents.
35. Athénée Léonie de Waha
The Athénée Léonie de Waha is a secondary school located in the center of the city of Liège, on the boulevard d'Avroy. Organised by the City of Liège, the school is part of the Liège municipal education and the public network Official Education.
36. Palais Provincial
The Palace of the Prince-Bishops is a historic building situated on the Place Saint-Lambert in the centre of Liège, Belgium. It was the residence of former Prince-Bishops of Liège. It once faced the monumental Cathedral of Saint Lambert.
37. Maison Mozin
Maison Mozin is a single-family dwelling house located at 402, rue de Campine, in the district of Sainte-Walburge, in Liège and built from 1957 to 1958. His client, Jules Mozin, is also the architect, who designed his personal house.
38. Pont de Fragnée
The Fragnée bridge, nicknamed the bridge of angels, is a bridge of the city of Liège crossing the Meuse at its confluence with the Ourthe, and at the start of the Derivation. The part spanning the Ourthe is called Pont de Fétinne.
39. Chapelle Saint-Roch
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.
40. Jardins Jean-Bernard Lejeune
The Jean-Bernard Lejeune Garden is a garden in the city of Liège, Belgium laid out in the early 1970s. Crossed by Rue Louvrex, it is located not far from the city centre, above a tunnel used as an exit to the A602-E25 motorway.
41. Maison du docteur Janssens-Lycops
The House of Dr. Janssens-Lycops is one of the most beautiful creations of art nouveau style house in Liège, Belgium. It was built between 1902 and 1903 by Paul Jaspar, initiator of Art Nouveau in the ardent city.
42. Église Saint-Remacle-au-Pont
The Saint-Remacle-au-Pont church, located in the Amercœur district, is one of the oldest parish churches in Liège. She was thus appointed to set it apart from Saint-Remacle-au-Mont, located near Saint-Martin.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Remacle-au-Pont de Liège (FR), Website
43. Villa l'Aube de Serrurier Bovy
The Villa l'Aube was built in 1903 by the architect, interior designer and interior designer from Liège Gustave Serrurier-Bovy as a personal residence. It is one of the jewels of Art Nouveau in Liège.
44. Pont Marcotty
The Pont-Levant des Aguesses, or Pont-Levant Marcotty or simply Marcotty bridge, is a bridge-levant located on the Ourthe canal. The work was built in 1852 and classified as a monument on May 20, 1983.
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