Anthisnes is a beautiful rural town twenty-five kilometers southwest of Liège. The area covers 3,707 hectares and has almost 4,100 inhabitants. 61% of its territory consists of agricultural land, 26% of forests.
It is located in the Condroz of Liège at the foot of the Ourthe valley.
Anthisnes was a high place of the stone industry and the small granite contributed to its fame from the end of the 18th century to reach its peak around 1915. Many buildings were built in stone from Anthisnes and its region, such as the main post office in Liège, the columns of the Fragnée bridge (1905), the fiftieth anniversary in Brussels,... The statue of King Albert I marking the beginning of the canal in Liège, was sculpted in Anthisnes. Today there are four farms left, one of which mines small granite; the others extract sandstone.
Anthisnes offers its increasing number of visitors a remarkable natural environment from which emerge here and there castles, farms and other buildings of great beauty, some of which are classified as the Avouerie, the farm of Saint-Laurent today reassigned to nineteen newly occupied social houses, the church of Saint-Pierre de Hody, the Omalius farm which is the subject of an ambitious project, the castle of Villers-aux-Tours,...
Hikers are often amazed by the beauty of the landscapes they can discover along the 62 km of signposted trails available to them. Mountain bike circuits are also possible.
Anthisnes also has a rich social life thanks to the diversity of the fifty or so associations that make up the city.
Anthisnes is increasingly opening itself up to events with international participation such as the biennial festival of Celtic music since 2000, an international greyhound racing event in June in Vien, the passage of the Tour de France in 1995 and in 2012 the passage of the Giro d 'Italia on May 13, 2002, and last but not least the police-gendarmerie rally whose epicenter was for the second time in Anthisnes.