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Sights and Attractions in LUXEMBOURG CITY

editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:21:00 +0000

SIGHTS Apart from the EEC buildings (the European Tower is 24 storeys high), the late Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady with its Renaissance door (17th century); the Grand Ducal Palace, which was built in 1572 as the Town hall and the so called Spanish Tower with large parts of the fortress still intact today. While her husband had not seen the same visions, he did admit to some strange, unexplainable happenings. Mark recalled one morning when he and Mari woke up to find several painful scratches on their bodies. The scratches could not be explained. Mari’s fears escalated when their

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Map of LUXEMBOURG CITY

editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:17:00 +0000

LUXEMBOURG CITY For a city with only 80,000 inhabitants it is very important as the seat of the European Court of Justice and numerous institutions of the European Economic Community (European Parliament, European Commission ) as well as its administration center. The European Investment Bank is here as well as the International Faculty of Comparable Science and the Catholic Bishopric. NATO also has a depot here. Above all this, one should not forget that Luxembourg is an important commercial center with over 120 Foreign banks, many industries, trade organisations, and the studios of RTL (Radio-Tele-Luxembourg) Europe’s first commercial radio broadcasting

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Travel to LUXEMBOURG CITY

editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:14:00 +0000

HISTORY The Frankish fortress Lucilinburhuc known as Lutzelburg (small castle 963 AD) became the seat of the Duchy of Luxembourg and was the foundation of the town. The upper town Luxembourg and the lower town Grund, Pfaffental and Clausen already existed when in 1224 the place had freedom of the city. In 1815 Luxembourg became the German garrison for the Prussian occupation and between 1867 and 1883 a large part of the fortress was demolished. In 1958 the Benelux treaty with Belgium and the Netherlands abolished custom borders between the three countries and gave free trade and labor movements between

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