Province of Liège

Cities & towns in the Province of Liège
	Liège - The center of Wallonia's biggest aglomeration, this city on the Meuse river is the region's main center for education, employement and culture. Though it has a rough, industrial edge, it is also a city of many surprises. Those who take their time to explore it will discover over a 1000 years of history in its winding backstreets. They will also discover a lively city with an almost mediterranean atmosphere and active nightlife. Population: 197,355 Aglomeration; +/- 500,000
	Verviers
	Huy
	Eupen
	Visé
	Herve
	Waremme
	Hannut
	Malmedy
	Spa
	Sankt-Vith
	Stavelot
	Limbourg

November 6, 2017April 10, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Liège’s Industrial Suburbs (1)

BELGIUM – When many people think of Liège, they imagine something like Charleroi, another Belgian town which is famous for its defunct industry and urban decay. But what they think is Liège is actually Seraing, a municipality made up of three industrial towns in the Meuse valley to the south-west of the city. The most…

June 18, 2017April 1, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Bike ride to Borgloon

BELGIUM – One Sunday, when it was exeptionally nice weather, I decided to cross one more town from my list of Belgian towns I haven’t visited yet: Borgloon. To do this, I cycled north along the N20 from Liège to Tongeren, where I turned west on to the N79 to Sint-Truiden. I didn’t make many…

November 3, 2015March 9, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Suburban Liège and the Hesbay (2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Suburban Liège and the Hesbay

BELGIUM – Having explored the south-western suburbs of Liège in the last post, I will take you on an almost circular tour of the north-western ones in this post, starting about a kilometer from where we left off.

November 1, 2015March 9, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Suburban Liège and the Hesbay (1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Suburban Liège and the Hesbay

BELGIUM – Situated in the steep-sided valley of the Meuse river, the city of Liège lies at the meeting points of several distinct regions. To the north and west, the craggy landscape surrounding the valley merges with the plateau of the Hesbaye, an empty agricultural region of more gradual hills. The extensive suburbs of Liège…

October 5, 2015February 14, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Under the High Viaduct

BELGIUM – I have long found the region of eastern Belgium just south of the Dutch border, and just west of the German border, to be particularly interesting. So close to the Netherlands, yet so different, this empty land of hills and old villages seems like time stood still, and feels strangely mysterious to me….

August 28, 2015February 19, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Trip to a Town that Nobody Knows They Know

BELGIUM – When I worked as a freelance language teacher in Liège, I sometimes taught adolescents in the village of Dalhem. As it was a good 17 kilometers uphill from my house, I would often go there by bus, and back using my folding bike (which was mostly down hill of course). I made pictures…

October 19, 2014February 14, 2019 By Alwin_en_Ruben

The Day the Summer Went Away

BELGIUM – There’s always a turning point in autumn, after which it suddenly feels more like winter. And sometimes that turning point is in the middle of the day. It was on the bright and sunny morning of such a day, October the 19th 2014, that a friend and I set for a bike ride…

October 4, 2014February 16, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Early Autumn in the Hesbay

BELGIUM – A walk with my parents in Glons, a village to the north of
Liége in a region called the Hesbaye (NL: Haspengouw), 2014-10-04.

July 6, 2013February 16, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

The Original Spa

BELGIUM – Hidden in the wooded hills of the eastern Ardennes, lies the backdrop for stories by Aghatha Christie, a town where the rich and famous (including kings, queens, tsars and tsarinas) used to meet on their holidays. That town is Spa, the place that gave us the word for all resorts with thermal springs….

June 19, 2013February 14, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Summer in the Land of Herve

BELGIUM – Having shown you you the Land of Herve, one of my favourite parts of Belgium, in the snow, I will now show you what it looks like in high summer. These pictures were taken on June 13 2013, during a bike ride that took me north along the river Meuse before cycling back…

February 27, 2013June 6, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

A Fairy Tale Winter in A Fairy Tale Country

BELGIUM – To the east of Liège lies a region that I have always found particularly atmospheric and mysterious: the Pays de Herve, or land of Herve. I went for a walk there with a friend on a snowy day in February 2013. 1. To get to the starting point of our walk, we had…

February 2, 2013February 14, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

The Real Limburg

BELGIUM – Limburg is the name of two provinces, one in the Netherlands, and the other in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Neither has much to do with the historic Duchy of Limburg, which was an independent country from the 10th to 18th centuries. Most of the Duchy of Limburg lay to the south…

December 30, 2007March 22, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

The Far East of Belgium

BELGIUM – It is well known that Belgium is divided into two roughly equal parts: Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south. But it is less known that a small part in the east of the Walloon province of Liège is German speaking. Part of an area nowadays simply called Ostbelgien,…

August 30, 2006May 6, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

A Rained Out Summer by the River Meuse

BELGIUM / FRANCE / THE NETHERLANDS – In the summer of 2006, a friend and I went on a cycling holiday along the Meuse river through the whole of Belgium and a part of France.

May 10, 2006February 14, 2019 By Ruben Alexander

Herstal on a spring morning

BELGIUM – Early morning walk on the northern edge of Liège, through an area that was pretty new to me at the time, but where I would later live for eight years.

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