Huy

Huy sits where the Hoyoux joins the Meuse under a rock that has carried a fortress since the medieval period, though the present citadel is a Dutch construction of the 1820s, a heavy barrack fort now holding a museum. A cable car runs up to it from the riverbank. Below, the collegiate church of Notre-Dame is a fourteenth-century Gothic building with a large rose window known locally as the Rondia, about nine metres across, and a treasury holding Mosan metalwork including four twelfth-century reliquary shrines of the first rank. The town square has a baroque fountain of 1406, rebuilt later, and a network of narrow streets behind. The Meuse valley cycle route runs through.

What you actually see

• The Rondia rose window - a nine-metre wheel in the collegiate church.
• Mosan reliquary shrines - twelfth-century metalwork in the treasury.
• The citadel above the town - a Dutch barrack fort of the 1820s.
• The cable car - running up the rock from the riverbank.

When to go

April to October; the fort and cable car are seasonal. Half a day. The treasury has limited hours. The Meuse cycle route makes the town an easy stop between Namur and Liege.

Honest expectations

The citadel is a nineteenth-century barracks rather than a medieval castle and the museum inside is heavy going. The cable car runs seasonally and closes in wind. The treasury opening is narrow. The town is otherwise ordinary.

Nearby

Modave Castle is south; Liege lies east on the Meuse.