About Liège
Liège is a thousand-year-old city with a historical center and numerous monuments, churches, and museums. It is located one hundred kilometers South East of Brussels and is Wallonia’s largest metropolis and Belgium’s third largest urban agglomeration. It has a population of 200,000 inhabitants. It is at the heart of the Meuse-Rhine Euregio, which also includes the cities of Maastricht (NL), Aachen (DE), and Hasselt (BE).
Liège is proud to be described as the city of hospitality. Neither too small nor too big, it offers all the attractions of a major city, but remains on a human scale. The city center is full of shops, restaurants, and brasseries. There’s something for every taste and budget. Students usually convene in ‘Le Carré’, a labyrinth of alleyways with a lively nightlife. On the right bank of the Meuse river, in Outremeuse, Rue Roture attracts gourmets and lovers of other cultures.
As a motorway junction, Liège is a gateway to the Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and all of Central Europe. It boasts Europe’s third-largest river port, with links to the seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. Its airport, at Bierset, is a fast-growing international freight hub. Its futuristic station designed by Santiago Calatrava, Gare de Liège-Guillemins, puts the city in the middle of the Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Frankfurt high speed rail corridor.
How to Reach Liège?
By air: Major airlines operate flights to Brussels Airport. Shuttle trains (Airport City Express) run every 10 to 15 minutes between the airport and several stations in Brussels where fast Intercity trains depart to Liège (Guillemins station) every 30 to 60 minutes, at least between 6:00 and 24:00. The journey lasts approximately 1 hour. There is also a direct train from the airport to the Liège-Guillemins station every hour from 5:00 to 22:00. Check the Belgian Railways web site for additional information and schedules. If you prefer to rent a car, several car rental companies have an office in the airport building at the exit of the luggage reclaim hall.
Low-cost airlines arrive at Brussels South Charleroi Airport. A public bus (line A1) links the airport to the Charleroi Central train station. From there, direct trains to Liège (Guillemins station) depart every hour, at least between 5:00 and 23:00. The journey takes about 1 hour 15 minutes. Check the Belgian Railways web site for additional information and schedules.
By train: Numerous international trains are routed via Liège Guillemins station, including high speed Eurostar trains on the route Paris/Cologne-Düsseldorf-Dortmund, ICE trains on the route Brussels/Frankfurt, and ÖBB Nightjet trains on the routes Brussels/Berlin and Brussels/Vienna. Check the Belgian Railways web site for additional information and schedules.
By road: Liège is directly linked to the European motorway network through several motorways: from Brussels (E40), from Paris (E42), from Antwerp (E313), from Aachen (E40), or from Maastricht (E25).