CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Liège it runs 251 km to Liège; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of Beguinage de Sint-Truiden, Stadhuis met Toren, Aachen Cathedral and back through Aachen Cathedral. It crosses from Belgium into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 85 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Liège is a hard-working Walloon city on the Meuse, where steelworks once glowed along the river and the people have a reputation for warmth and bluntness. It has none of the polished prettiness of Bruges, and that is part of its appeal. The old centre is a tangle of lanes and courtyards under the hill called the Citadelle, with the grand Palace of the Prince-Bishops standing on a vast square, a reminder that this was an independent church state for nearly eight centuries.
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Liege is where the day begins. Next is Beguinage de Sint-Truiden.
At the edge of Sint-Truiden, a market town in the fruit country of Haspengouw, a ring of low brick houses surrounds a large grassy courtyard with trees and a Gothic church in the middle. This is the béguinage, one of the Flemish béguinages listed together by UNESCO, where for centuries communities of laywomen lived devout lives of prayer and work without taking permanent vows. It is one of the largest and best preserved in the region, and it has a calm, almost village-like feel.
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Beguinage de Sint-Truiden comes up 33 km in. Next is Stadhuis met Toren.
Sint-Truiden's Grote Markt is one of the largest market squares in Belgium, and at its centre stands the town hall with its belfry, a tower that has watched over the town since the Middle Ages and been rebuilt and remodelled several times. The belfry, with its carillon, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Belfries of Belgium and France, inscribed in 1999 to honour these civic towers that symbolised the freedom and wealth of the medieval towns. Climb it if you can, and you will see the whole of the Haspengouw region spread out around you, a gently rolling landscape of orchards and fields.
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66 km in you reach Stadhuis met Toren. Next is Aachen Cathedral.
Charlemagne chose Aachen for its hot springs, and the springs still bubble up under the old town, smelling faintly of sulphur at the fountains where they surface. Around the end of the eighth century he built a palace here and, at its heart, a chapel: an octagon under a dome, ringed by a sixteen-sided ambulatory, designed by Odo of Metz with columns and marble shipped from Ravenna and Rome. That chapel is the core of Aachen Cathedral, and in 1978 it became the first site in Germany on the World Heritage list.
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Aachen Cathedral, about halfway. Next is Aachen Cathedral.
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Aachen Cathedral sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Aachen Cathedral.
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back through Aachen Cathedral comes up 166 km in. Next is back through Stadhuis met Toren.
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199 km in you reach back through Stadhuis met Toren. Next is back through Beguinage de Sint-Truiden.
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back through Beguinage de Sint-Truiden, late in the day. Next is Liege.
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The route ends here after 251 km.
Liege → Beguinage de Sint-Truiden is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stadhuis met Toren → Aachen Cathedral is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Aachen Cathedral → back through Stadhuis met Toren is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Beguinage de Sint-Truiden → Liege is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.