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Rham Plateau
Luxembourg 2427 - Luxembourg

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 Spaniards, the French fortress builder Vauban built the military barracks on the plateau in 1685...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bock Casements  (< 1 Mile)
The casements are a honeycomb of tunnels and galleries first carved out in 1644 by the Spaniards and extended in the 18th Century by 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Notre Dame Cathedrale  (< 1 Mile)
Built in the late Gothic style, the cathedral dates from the early 17th Century and was originally a Jesuit church. Many changes have taken place...
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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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