Tourism

Officially a city for before the year thousand, Liège has a surprising architectural heritage, providing it today with a large number of tourist attractions. As far as promotion is concerned, Liège and its region have top quality tools including the Office du tourisme de la Ville de Liège (Liège City Tourist Information Bureau), the maison du tourisme du pays de Liège (Liège Region Tourism Centre) and the Fédération du tourisme de la Province de Liège (Liège Province Tourism Federation) (all three physically joined at a single office, at Feronstrée 92, right in the city’s old town centre) and also the Office de promotion du tourisme Wallonie-Bruxelles (Wallonia-Brussels Tourism Promotion Office).

A stone’s throw from the Les Comtes de Méan” hotel is the Place Saint-Lambert, the old palace of the prince-bishops (today the seat of the provincial government and of the courts) and the Archéoforum, which presents 9,000 years of Liège history including the remains of the old Saint-Lambert cathedral, destroyed in 1794 and until then the biggest in the world.

In the crowd, the old town centre, with Hors-Château and its dead ends, the extraordinary, green Citadel Slopes, the Saint-Barthélemy collegial church and its baptism fonts, the Place du Marché, its perron (symbol of Liège eneedoms), its town hall “La Violette” and its lively bistros.

To complement your charming strolls in the town centre, which is largely pedestrian, you must visit the lively approaches to the Place de la Cathedrale (whose treasures are decidedly worth a detour), the bucolic charm of the Parc d’Avroy and Parc de la Boverie and, on the other side of the river, the extraordinary Outremeuse district, home to Georges Simenon and of the 15 August festivities and also the site of the Tchantchès museum (the Tchantches character being Liège’s symbol and found all over the city) and location of the charming Rue Roture.

Beyond Liège a province replete with tourist sites opens up, where, according to the saying, you can find “everything except the sea”: remarkable châteaux along the Meuse, wild and impenetrable marshes to the East, spellbinding buttresses of the mysterious Ardennes to the South, the wonderful Hesbignonne countryside, relaxation at Spa, touring in Huy or Verviers….

There is no doubt that the Crowne Plaza Liège “Les Comtes de Méan” will put Liège on the tourist map in even bolder type as one of the most popular destinations in Belgium and in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion.