La cathédrale Saint-Paul de Liège est l'une des sept anciennes collégiales de la ville de Liège, en Belgique. Fondée au Xe siècle en tant que collégiale Saint-Paul, elle est reconstruite du XIIIe au XVe siècle et restaurée au milieu du XIXe siècle. Elle devient cathédrale et siège du diocèse de Liège au XIXe siècle en raison de la destruction de la cathédrale Saint-Lambert en 1795.
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Liège Cathedral, otherwise St. Paul's Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Liège, Belgium. Founded in the 10th century, it was rebuilt from the 13th to the 15th century and restored in the mid-19th century. It became a Catholic cathedral in the 19th century due to the destruction of Saint Lambert's Cathedral in 1795. It is the seat of the Diocese of Liège.
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Liège is a city and municipality in the Belgian region of Wallonia, and the capital of the eponymous province. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands to the north) and with Germany north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe. The city is part of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It is still the principal economic and cultural centre of the region.
The municipality consists of the following sections: Liège proper, Angleur, Bressoux, Chênée, Glain, Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Rocourt, and Wandre. In January 2022, Liège had 195,278 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. This includes a total of 52 municipalities, among others, Herstal and Seraing. Liège ranks as the third most populous urban area in Belgium, after Brussels and Antwerp, and the fourth municipality after Antwerp, Ghent and Charleroi. The city is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion.
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The 1930 UCI Road World Championships was the tenth edition of the UCI Road World Championships.
The championship took place in Liège, Belgium on Saturday 30 August 1930.
There were 23 professional cyclists and 22 amateurs at the start. The amateurs left one hour later than the professionals.
The course was 210,6 km, with winner Alfredo Binda finishing with an average speed of 27.953 km/h.
In the same period, the 1930 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was organized in the Stade du Centenaire in Brussels.
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Théâtre de Liège is a theatre in Liège, Belgium.
The theatre briefly became the subject of notoriety in July 2015 after it was found that its logo, designed by local designer Olivier Debie, had been plagiarized by the designer of the emblem for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Debie filed a lawsuit against the International Olympic Committee to prevent use of the infringing logo, which was withdrawn in September 2015 and replaced by a new design.
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The University of Liège, or ULiège, is a major public research university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Belgium. Its official language is French.
Since the 1970s its main campus is located on the Sart-Tilman hill, about ten kilometers south of Liège, but the university retains its historic headquarters and numerous administrative offices in the city center, as well as four of its eleven faculties. It has secondary installments throughout the Liège Province; in addition to Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech which is based in Gembloux, and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Management in Arlon. As a research intensive university, it also operates multiple facilities abroad: the STARESO oceanography station in Corsica, the Jungfraujoch weather station in Switzerland, the KATABATA stations in Greenland, as well as scientific stations and observatories in Chile, in Morocco, and in Tenerife, Spain.
Une nouvelle restauration est entamée durant les années 2010.
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