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Kathrin_E Says: Place Saint-Lambert is the heart of Lüttich. Nowadays it is a wide open space in modern design. This square is about the only area in the city centre which has brand new pavement. Works were still in progress in summer 2012. (For reasons explained on the intro page, the...
Kathrin_E Says: The "museum of Wallonian life" occupies the former convent buildings of the Minorite monastery, a renaissance complex of four wings around the cloister plsu some side buildings. The former abbey church is used for temporary exhibitions. The style of the facades show the...
Kathrin_E Says: This street leads from Ferronstree up the hillside to the quarter au Péri and the citadel. The "street" consists of one single stairway with all in all 374 steps - number according to Wikipedia, I did not count them because I needed my breath for climbing them. The top side...
Kathrin_E Says: I am mentioning this train station among the "Things to do" instead of the "Transportation" tips because of its remarkable architecture. This station hall is worth a stroll with the camera.Gullemins is the new central station of Liège, here the high speed Thalys and ICE...
Nemorino Says: At the east end of Fragnée Bridge, on the right bank of the Meuse River, there is an elaborate monument to the Belgian electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme (1825-1901), the inventor of the industrial dynamo.Gramme was a practical man (and later in life a successful...
Two crumbling landmarks on a hill
Nemorino Says: Up on a hill at the south end of Liège there is a church called Sacré Coeur (Sacred Heart) and a tower called the Inter-Allied Monument. These can be seen from many places in the southern half of the city.From a distance, these two monuments look a bit shabby, but when you...
Nemorino Says: The Royal Theater, home of the Royal Opera of the Wallonia, is currently (as of 2011) being reconstructed and enlarged. So far it seems that the original building will be dwarfed by the new tower for stage machinery which is under construction at the rear.The theater was...
Nemorino Says: While the opera house is being rebuilt, the Royal Opera of Wallonia is performing in the “Opera Palace”, which is actually a large tent that was set up “in record time” in the district of Outremeuse (meaning The Other Side of the Meuse) on the now-vacant site of the former...
Nemorino Says: The opera tent is actually a group of tents, of which the front ones serve as a roomy and elegant foyer.On my Kassel page I showed a different (smaller) opera tent, the “Kuppeltheater”, which so far has been used in four different German cities so far while their opera...
Nemorino Says: The opera I saw in Liège was Salomé by Richard Strauss, but sung this time in French, not in the original German. This took a bit of getting used to, since I have heard it so often in German, but it works fine either way. So this time the first line of the opera was: Comme...
Nemorino Says: The composer André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) was born in Liège, and his birth house has been turned into a small museum.Grétry was extremely popular during his lifetime. He composed about fifty operas, mainly comic operas, none of which I have ever seen or...
Romantik Hotel Le Val d'Ambleve
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2 Reviews and 74 Opinions This hotel has a funny name but an unbeatable location, not only right in front of the new railroad...
Nemorino Says: Throughout Europe, in fact throughout the world, different bike sharing programs keep appearing, some intended for tourists, some for locals and some for both.The Blue Bikes, which are available at 41 railway stations in Belgium, are intended mainly for people who do a lot...
Nemorino Says: The French name of this museum is Musée des Transport en commun du Pays de Liège. It is located in the old tram depot in the district of Vennes-Fétinne.The museum includes public transport vehicles from two centuries, starting with a horse-drawn stage-coach (diligence) and...
Old trams in the transport museum
Nemorino Says: Like most cities, Liège made the mistake of phasing out its extensive tramway system in the second half of the twentieth century. Fortunately some of the old trams (aka streetcars) were saved and are now on display at the Museum of Public Transport.Now, in the twenty-first...
médiacité: Controversial new shopping mall
Nemorino Says: When I first saw the signs pointing to “médiacité” I thought it had something to do with mendacity, but actually it means Media City and is a new shopping mall and urban development project that was inaugurated in 2009.Though I generally have something of an aversion to...
Nemorino Says: Just about everywhere in Liège you can see these typical brick houses, often built in the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.The three houses in these photos were all built in the year 1896. I took these photos on the street called rue Auguste-Buisseret (formerly rue de...
Nemorino Says: This is a district at the northern (downstream) end of Liège. I rode through on my bicycle one evening, following the bike route signs which led through reasonably quiet streets, and had the impression that Saint-Léonard was rather drab and not very prosperous.Later I found...
Nemorino Says: When I first saw the signs pointing to Angleur I though it had something to do with fishing, but that’s probably just a silly anglophone mistake. I suppose there might be some fish in the canal or in the Ourthe River, but I didn’t see anybody trying to catch them.Angleur is...
Nemorino Says: The Meuse is one of those confusing rivers, like the Rhine or the Elbe, that flow more or less from south to north, so that upstream is at the bottom end of the map and downstream is at the top. This confusion of course has more to do with our map-making conventions than...
The Ourthe River joins the Meuse
Nemorino Says: The Ourthe is a shorter and smaller river that joins the Meuse at the south end of Liège, though actually most of the water from the Ourthe flows not directly into the Meuse but into a canal called the Dérivation de la Meuse, which was built in the nineteenth century to...
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In the footsteps (or wagon ruts) of Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s first visit to Liège was in 1840, when he was thirty-eight years old. He was travelling by stagecoach, known in French as a diligence, and was on his way from Paris to the Rhine Valley...
The city of Liège lies on the confluence of the Meuse and the Ourthe. It's a very old city always in a state of constant transformation.
The Walloon Region, commonly called Wallonia, is one of the three Regions of Belgium (the Brussels-Capital Region and the Flemish Region are the other two). Wallonia represents approximately 33% of......
Liège is, without protests, one of my favourite cities: a lot to see, many possibilities, an assured change of surroundings, a rich past, a well living folklore and welcoming people will do your stay...
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