Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO)L-2011 Luxembourg 30, place Guillaume II L-1648 Luxembourg T +352 22 28 09

Language: French, German, Luxembourgish
Currency: Euro 
Food: Judd mat Gaardebounen, smoked collar of pork with broad beans. The pork is soaked overnight, then boiled with vegetables and spices. Served in copious slices together with the beans and boiled potatoes, it is considered to be the national dish of Luxembourg.Also fresh water fish, crawfish and sausages.
Dessert: fruit tarts and macarons.

CENTRAL RAILSTATION
Place de la Gare | L-1616 LuxembourgIn 1859
The first railway station of the city started to operate; for military reasons timber was the basic construction material.Between 1907 and 1913 the German architects Rüdell, Jüsgen and Scheuffel planned and organized the gradual replacing of the half-timbering by modern building techniques.The monumental main building and the high clock tower are in “Moselle Baroque”.In the entrance hall a mosaic window discloses the outline of the city; the ceiling was repainted by the Luxembourg artist Armand Strainchamps.

BOCK CASEMATES
Montée de Clausen L-1343 Luxembourg City
Opened: 10 am – 5 pm
Entrance Price: Adults 4 € 
In 963, Count Siegfried built a fortified castle on the Bock promontory, which was soon to become the cradle of the city. In the course of the centuries, on the western side, mighty ring walls were added, which, however, did not foil the Burgundians in their attempt to conquer the city in 1443. The best builder-engineers of the new masters (the Burgundians, the Spaniards, the French, the Austrians and the German Confederation) eventually turned the city into one of the most powerful emplacements in the world, the "Gibraltar of the North". Its defences were bolstered by three fortified rings with 24 forts, 16 other strong defensive works and a unique 23 km long network of casemates: these could not only shelter thousands of soldiers and their horses, but also housed workshops, kitchens, bakeries, slaughter-houses etc. In 1867, after the declaration of neutrality,the military withdrew from the fortress and during the following 16 years 90% of the defences were demolished. In 1875, the superstructure of the Bock, a tremendous construction, was razed. However, it proved to be impossible to blow up the casemates, without also demolishing part of the city, so the entrances and the key connecting galleries were sealed. In spite of this, 17 kilometres of tunnels remain, often on different levels and tremendous stairways penetrate up to 40 metres inside the rock face. During the two world wars, the Bock Casemates and those of the Pétrusse valley served as a shelter with the capacity to protect 35,000 people in the event of an alert or bombardment.

THREE ACORNS - Fort
Thüngen3, Park Dräi Eechelen | L-1499 Luxembourg
Named after the Austrian commander-in-chief of the fortress, Baron of Thüngen, it was built in 1732 to enclose the defense work called Redoute du Parc (Park Redoubt) set up by Vauban 50 years before. A deep moat surrounded Fort Thüngen which was accessible only through a 169-metre long underground tunnel through the rocks from Obergrünewald. In 1836 the Prussians extended the Fort and in 1860 strengthened it again.In 1870 and 1874 it was demolished: only the three round towers, the so-called Three Acorns, and the foundation walls, uncovered in 1991, remained in good condition. Here are also the “Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean”, built after the plans of the Sino-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei and the "Musée Dräi Eechelen".

LE CHEMIN DE LA CORNICHE
Also called “the most beautiful balcony of Europe” (according to the Luxembourg writer Batty Weber), promenade runs high above city along the Alzette valley on the ramparts - built by the Spaniards and the French in the 17th century - from the Bock Promontory up to the lower part of the Holy Ghost Citadel, the so-called “Rondellen”.Up to the year 1870 the Corniche had staircases in steep parts which were levelled off only after the dismantling of the fortress. Moreover the greatest part of the protecting wall with its loopholes was cleared away so as to disclose a superb panorama on the valley of the Alzette, the city district of Grund and the Rham Plateau.

PALAIS GRAND-DUCAL (GRAND-DUCAL PALACE)
Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes

BOULEVARD ROYAL
Between Pl. de Bruxelles and Côte d'Eich
Luxembourg's mini–Wall Street was once the main moat of the fortress. Lined with as many of the 225 foreign financial institutions as could squeeze onto the five-block street, boulevard Royal is the symbol of a financial center where the securities-trading operation has a higher turnover than that of the New York Stock Exchange. The pinstripe suits can get some relief from their labors by gazing at Niki de St. Phalle's large and brightly colored statue, La Tempérance, which adorns their street.