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Liège


Liège's top comic-book shop is especially strong on manga and if you don't read French there's still a fine range of contemporary cartoon-inspired figurines.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Liège attractions

1. Tchantchès Pilot Sculpture

0.15 MILES

Beside the St-Lambert bus stops is this cartoonesque figure piloting a little metal aeroplane: Liège’s mascot and oldest ‘citizen’, the big-nosed wooden…

2. Cathédrale St-Paul

0.17 MILES

Cathédrale St-Paul's highlights include a big 19th-century painting depicting the legend of St-Lambert's assassination, and the saint's ornate silver…

3. Archéoforum

0.19 MILES

Once one of the greatest churches in northern Europe, St-Lambert’s Cathedral was demolished from 1793 in the aftermath of the Révolution Liégeoise, very…

4. Trésor

0.2 MILES

Off the closed-in cloister of Cathédrale St-Paul, the slickly presented three-level Trésor guards many artworks, vestments and chalices rescued from St…

5. Hôtel de Ville

0.22 MILES

At night the 1719 city hall glows lugubriously in its blood-red spotlights. By day it commands Liège’s charming, if modestly sized, original main square,…

6. Former Palace of the Prince-Bishops

0.23 MILES

Behind an Italian Renaissance facade, this former palace is reputedly one of the largest secular Gothic buildings anywhere in the world. Prior to 1789 it…

7. Musée de la Vie Wallonne

0.33 MILES

In an adapted convent-cloister building, this curious museum takes visitors on an amble through the region’s past, exploring everything from 12th-century…

8. Institut Zoologique

0.35 MILES

Built in 1888, this palatial building has a deep-eyed bust of Darwin on its central pediment, best spotted from the river-ferry as it approaches the Pôle…