Liège - Palais des Princes-Evêques and Surroundings

Adjoining the Musée de la Vie Wallonne in the Rue Mère-Dieu is the Musée d'Art Religieux (Museum of Religious and Mosan Art). It was the former Diocesan museum and exhibits in nine rooms religious works from the churches of Liège and the Meuse region.

Until 1796 the Cathédrale Saint-Lambert, the largest cathedral in the Netherlands at that time, stood in the Place Saint-Lambert. It was destroyed by the French revolutionaries and their supporters in Liège and the ruins moved in 1808. The excavations of the church foundations and the hypocaust of a Roman villa below the square are accessible by a staircase. Georges Simenon was born at No. 24 Rue Léopold which leads from the square to the Meuse.

The climb up the 374 steps of the Montagne du Bueren to the Parc de la Citadelle (158m/518ft) is rewarded with a fine view of the city. The park incorporates the grounds and bastions of the 18th C. citadel (now a barracks). Either return the same way or continue along the path already started, which finally leads back down to the church of Saint-Barthélemy.