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Les Terrasses is a sub-district of the city of Liège on the left bank of the Meuse. It is part of the administrative district of the center. In the former principality of Liège, it was part of the Avroy district. The district is bounded by Avenue Blonden, Boulevard Piercot, Avenue Rogier and the Meuse. During the nineteenth century, major work to rectify the route of the Meuse and its branches were undertaken. During its work, a vast four-hectare body of water was laid out to serve as a trading basin, which was to be the first river port of Liège. The new layout creates an island which, by analogy with the harbor basin, takes the name of Commerce Island (a wasteland, marshy, uncultivated, but with a considerable economic future). The basin quickly turned out to be ill-suited to the needs of boatmen, and the Ile de Commerce, which was located between it and the Meuse, remained abandoned. At the end of the 1870s, Hubert-Guillaume Blonden, director of works at the city of Liège, decided to establish a park and a new residential area there.
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