Liège-Guillemins Train Station

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Liège's main train station, around 2km south of the centre, is an incredible 2009 icon designed by Santiago Calatrava. Great for semi-abstract landscape photography, its bold white sweeping curves create the impression of a vast glass-and-concrete manta ray.

From platform 1 there's a nicely framed view of the Tour Paradis, a 118m-tall sail-shaped glass skyscraper for accountant-bureaucrats.


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1. Tour Paradis

0.29 MILES

At 118m, Tour Paradis is one of Belgium's tallest skyscrapers, a sleekly gleaming sail of blue glass. However, it's full of accountant-bureaucrats who…

2. La Boverie

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3. Église St-Jacques

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4. Trésor

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Off the closed-in cloister of Cathédrale St-Paul, the slickly presented three-level Trésor guards many artworks, vestments and chalices rescued from St…

5. Cathédrale St-Paul

1.12 MILES

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6. Institut Zoologique

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7. Outremeuse

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8. Tchantchès Pilot Sculpture

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