Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Liège, Belgium

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 2.9 km
Ascend 35 m
Descend 70 m

Explore Liège in Belgium with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in LiègeIndividual Sights in Liège

Sight 1: Tour aux Moxhons

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The Moxhons Tower, also known as the Moxhons 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 ramparts of the city of Liège.

Wikipedia: Tour des Moxhons (FR), Heritage Website

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Cirque d'hiver

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The Cirque d'Hiver de Liège, often referred to simply as the Cirque d'Hiver, also known as the Cirque des Variétés, is a circular building located in Liège, built in 1853.

Wikipedia: Cirque d'hiver (Liège) (FR)

357 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Collégiale Saint-Jean

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The collegiate church of Saint-Jean the evangelist, also called Saint-Jean-en-l'Isle, is one of the seven former collegials of the city of Liège, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Collégiale Saint-Jean-en-l'isle de Liège (FR), Website, Heritage Website

260 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Opéra Royal de Wallonie

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The Opéra royal de Wallonie is an 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.

Wikipedia: Opéra Royal de Wallonie (EN), Website, Heritage Website

264 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Passage Lemonnier

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The Passage Lemonnier is a covered walkway in the centre of Liège in Belgium that is home to shops of all types. It connects the Vinâve d'Île to the rue de l'Université and is crossed in the 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 Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, inaugurated in Brussels in 1847.

Wikipedia: Passage Lemonnier (FR)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Maison À l'Anneau d'Or

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House In the Ring of Gold is an old trading house built in 1754 and located in the historic centre of the city of Liège in Belgium.

Wikipedia: Maison À l'Anneau d'Or (FR), Heritage Website

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: André Dumont

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André Dumont

André Hubert Dumont was a Belgian geologist.

Wikipedia: André Dumont (geologist) (EN)

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 8: Musée Wittert

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Musée Wittert Jean-Michel Bourdoux / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Wittert Museum, the art museum of the University of Liège, holds 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 was redeveloped. New signage has been installed and the exhibition spaces have been completely redesigned so that the semi-permanent exhibition "Wonders and curiosities from the art collections of the University of Liège" and temporary exhibitions can be presented alternately.

Wikipedia: Musée Wittert (FR), Website

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Trésor de Liège

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Trésor de Liège inconnu / marque déposée

The Treasury of Liège Cathedral presents in ten thematic exhibition rooms a journey through the art and history of the former Principality of Liège.

Wikipedia: Trésor de la cathédrale de Liège (FR), Website

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Hôtel de Crassier

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The Hôtel de Crassier, sometimes spelled Hôtel de Crassiers, is a private mansion erected in 1706 and located in Le Carré in Liège, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Crassier (FR), Heritage Website

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Église Saint-Christophe

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The Church of Saint-Christophe is a church in the Saint-Gilles district of Liège, built around 1240, and which had the particularity of being both a parish and a beguinage church.

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

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