Festivities & Folklore

Dubbed “the glowing City”, Liège is certainly an extremely warm town, with its famously friendly inhabitants, a city with residents originating from 150 or so countries.

Proud of its local dishes (garlic sausage and chips, grilled white pudding, salade liégeoise, kidneys Liège style, stew with bacon cubes, Herve cheese, Liège syrup, roast pears, buckwheat pancakes and crêpes known as “boukêtes”…..). Liège is also famous for its “pékèt” (a gin) and its beer, brewed in Jupille and its cottage breweries: le Carré, an impossibly large collection of student bistros, and ideal for trying them all!

All year round the folk tradition is very present, with a great number of festivities. Apart from the world-famous Village de Noël (with one and a half million visitors a year, in the Place Saint-Lambert and the Place du Marché), don’t miss the Epicuriales (early June), the Village gaulois (Gallic Village (early July, Place Saint-Paul), the traditional October October fair (Boulevard d’Avroy), the 14 July festivities and, every Sunday, the “la Batte”, known as Europe’s longest market, stretching along the river Meuse.

Among the other significant events organised in Liège, we should also point to the Wallonia holiday festivities (in the Place Saint-Lambert, 200m from the Crowne Plaza Liège) and the Nocturne des Coteaux de la Citadelle, in October, right opposite the hotel.

And the holiday festivities of 15 August in Outremeuse, which represents the quintessence of the Liège area popular folk tradition…