Province de Liège
Province of Liège — Seraing, Liège, Herstal and Verviers
The route starts at the former provincial technical school in Seraing, opened in 1930, then brings together in Liège the Inter-Allied Memorial at Cointe (1937), the buildings of the quai du Condroz, the Passage Lemonnier transformed in 1934 and the former Sauvenière baths (Cité Miroir). It then passes the Royal Athenaeum in Herstal by Joseph Moutschen and ends in Verviers, with Verviers-Central station and its Art Deco interior, and the former Grand Bazar rebuilt after the fire of 1939.
8 stops · Duration full day · Distance multi-villes
École technique provinciale de Seraing
The former provincial technical school, inaugurated in 1930, a monumental building in a modernist style largely tinged with Art Deco, designed by the architect Joseph Legros.
Mémorial interallié de Cointe
A memorial completed and inaugurated in 1937 to plans by the Antwerp architect Joseph Smolderen, dedicated to the martyrs of the 1914-1918 war and later also to those of the Second World War.
Immeubles quai du Condroz
A homogeneous group of Art Deco apartment buildings and townhouses built in the 1930s at numbers 1 to 14 on Quai du Condroz.
Passage Lemonnier
A covered street linking Rue de l'Université to the Vinâve d'Île, built to plans by Louis-Désiré Lemonnier and opened in 1839, then completely transformed in 1934 by the architect
Bains et thermes de la Sauvenière
Remarkable modernist building with a reinforced-concrete frame, built from 1938 to 1942 to plans by Georges Dedoyard following a competition.
Athénée royal de Herstal
Modernist school building, decided in 1935 and built around 1936 to plans by the architect Joseph Moutschen, on the corner of Rue C.
Gare de Verviers-Central
Verviers-Central station, designed by Emile Burguet and Charles Thirion (d.
Ancien Grand Bazar de Verviers
Former Grand Bazar of Verviers, rebuilt after the 1939 fire on the place Verte by the architects Émile Burguet and W.
Translated from the French original.