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Holy Ghost Citadel
Plateau du Saint Esprit, Luxembourg 1475 - Luxembourg

Located in the upper town, this panoramic plateau offers superb views of the Petrusse and Alzette valleys as well as the lower town known as the Grund. An abbey was founded here in the 13th Century, and defences built later...
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Holy Ghost Citadel  (< 1 Mile)
Located in the upper town, this panoramic plateau offers superb views of the Petrusse and Alzette valleys as well as the lower town known as...
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Natural History Museum  (< 1 Mile)
Situated in the Grund district, the National Museum of Natural History is a modern museum with lots of activities that appeal to children. Natural history...
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Quiren chapel  (< 1 Mile)
Ancient Quiren Chapel is in the Petrusse Valley, near Pont Viaduc. Built into the rock, it is sited near a spring once reputed to be...
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Cultural Meeting Place  (< 1 Mile)
This cultural centre was formerly a Benedictine Abbey that replaced an earlier abbey destroyed during a war in the mid 16th Century. After the French...
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Chemin de la Corniche  (< 1 Mile)
The Corniche has been described by a Luxembourg writer as`the most beauiful balcony in Europe`. This scenic promenade leads from the St Esprit plateau along...
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St John`s Church  (< 1 Mile)
A church was built on this site in 1606, at about the same time as Neumunster Abbey. It was the place of worship for the...
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Place Clairfontaine  (< 1 Mile)
This fine square, near the Notre-Dame Cathedrale, was redesigned in the 1980s during a district restoration project. A refuge belonging to the Abbey of Clairfontaine,...
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Rham Plateau  (< 1 Mile)
The high ground above the River Alzette and the Grund district is known as the Rham Plateau. After taking the city of Luxembourg from the...
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Luxembourg City History Museum  (< 1 Mile)
This multi-level museum is housed in a group of former dwellings that have been restored in an old part of the city. The museum traces...
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St Michael`s Church  (< 1 Mile)
The Counts of Luxembourg built a castle chapel in the 10th Century on the site of the present church. Rebuilt several times, it was enlarged...
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Museum of History and Art  (< 1 Mile)
This museum is located on the Fish Market in the heart of the oldest part of the city. Extended and refurbished in the early 21st...
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The Fish Market  (< 1 Mile)
Located at the former crossroads of two Roman roads, the Fish Market is the centre of the old town of Luxembourg. This is where the...
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Vauban Walk  (< 1 Mile)
The French fortress builder Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban seized the fortress of Luxembourg from the Spaniards in 1684. With the help of 3,000 workers,...
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National Library  (< 1 Mile)
The National Library is located in a former Jesuit College, founded in 1603. It was for many years a high school. Since 1970, the building...
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Bock Promontory  (< 1 Mile)
The creation of the city of Luxembourg began in 963 when Count Siegfried of Ardenne acquired this precipitous rocky spur from the abbey of Trier...
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The Wenzel Walk  (< 1 Mile)
This outstanding, cultural circular itinerary has another name - `1000 years in 100 minutes`, but it is not a route to be hurried. The route...
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Grand Ducal Palace  (< 1 Mile)
Originally built as the town hall in the 1570s when the Spaniards ruled Luxembourg, the building`s facade reflects the Spanish-Moorish style. Since then many changes...
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Petrusse Casements  (< 1 Mile)
These military tunnels were formed by hollowing out the rock on which the city of Luxembourg was built. They date back to 1644, the time...
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Place Guillaume  (< 1 Mile)
Markets are held in Place Guillaume every Wednesday and Saturday. Here you will find a mass of colourful stalls selling fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish,...
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Bank Museum  (< 1 Mile)
The Bank Museum offers visitors an interesting insight into 150 years of Luxembourg banking history. Located in a former letter room of the bank`s headquarters,...
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