Sagan Makes A Perfect Debut
He can win on a whim on all sorts of terrain and today Peter Sagan proved that he's not at all daunted by the pressure of the Tour de France. In his second day in the race, he's won a stage. Read more
The stage in pictures
PHOTO06/07/2012 FILTERSTourist attractions
Liège
The Place Saint-Lambert will host the official ceremony of the Tour de France, a place devastated on 13 December 2011 by an act of madness by a crazed gunman who took six innocent lives and injured over a hundred . The organisers wished to honour them while the Liégeois felt united in adversity: "They have always held their heads high" in the words of the sixteenth century Michel de l'Hospital, Francis I’s Chancellor, quote engraved on the walls of the city. Third largest city in the country and economic capital of Wallonia, Liège has turned the page from a heavy industrial past and invested resolutely in industries of the future like biotechnology, space and sustainable development. Thanks to its location in the heart of Europe, Liège, easily accessible by air (Bierset is the eighth European freight airport), land (at the core of six motorways and high speed railway lines) and water (its river port authority is the third in Europe), now also offers a multimodal logistics platform, LiègeTrilogiport.
Web sites
10 previous finishes
192,000 inhabitants
Head of the canton of the Province of Liege (Belgium)
Specialties : Jupiler beer, peket (aperitif), Herve cheese, white pudding, Liege syrup, boulet a la Liegeoise.
Economy : metallurgy, transport, new technologies.
AKA : the Ardent city
Celebrities : Jean Lambert Joseph Fyon (politician), Georges Simenon, Cesar Franck (composer), Justine Henin, Dardenne brothers (film-makers), Marie Gillain (actress).
Sport : Standard (football). Liege Basket. Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Festivals : Liege festival, Jazz in Liege, International Crime Film Festival, Les Ardentes (electro)
Sagan Makes A Perfect Debut
He can win on a whim on all sorts of terrain and today Peter Sagan proved that he's not at all daunted by the pressure of the Tour de France. In his second day in the race, he's won a stage. Read more
The stage in pictures
Tourist attractions
Liège
The Place Saint-Lambert will host the official ceremony of the Tour de France, a place devastated on 13 December 2011 by an act of madness by a crazed gunman who took six innocent lives and injured over a hundred . The organisers wished to honour them while the Liégeois felt united in adversity: "They have always held their heads high" in the words of the sixteenth century Michel de l'Hospital, Francis I’s Chancellor, quote engraved on the walls of the city. Third largest city in the country and economic capital of Wallonia, Liège has turned the page from a heavy industrial past and invested resolutely in industries of the future like biotechnology, space and sustainable development. Thanks to its location in the heart of Europe, Liège, easily accessible by air (Bierset is the eighth European freight airport), land (at the core of six motorways and high speed railway lines) and water (its river port authority is the third in Europe), now also offers a multimodal logistics platform, LiègeTrilogiport.
Web sites
192,000 inhabitants
Head of the canton of the Province of Liege (Belgium)
Specialties : Jupiler beer, peket (aperitif), Herve cheese, white pudding, Liege syrup, boulet a la Liegeoise.
Economy : metallurgy, transport, new technologies.
AKA : the Ardent city
Celebrities : Jean Lambert Joseph Fyon (politician), Georges Simenon, Cesar Franck (composer), Justine Henin, Dardenne brothers (film-makers), Marie Gillain (actress).
Sport : Standard (football). Liege Basket. Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Festivals : Liege festival, Jazz in Liege, International Crime Film Festival, Les Ardentes (electro)
