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Top 10 sights in Luxembourg

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   Notre-Dame Cathedral

   The Catholic cathedral of Luxembourg, built as a Jesuit church in 1613 and raised to cathedral rank in 1870. It holds the tomb of John the Blind, king of Bohemia and count of Luxembourg, who was killed at Crécy in 1346 fighting while already blind.

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   Fort Thüngen

   A fort of 1732 on the Kirchberg plateau, part of the great fortress, whose three towers each carried a stone acorn — so the Luxembourgish call it the three acorns. It was largely demolished in 1867 and its foundations were excavated and reopened as a museum.

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   Grand Ducal Palace

   The official residence of the grand duke, a Renaissance building of 1573 that has been the town hall, the prefecture and the seat of the Prussian garrison in turn. The guard is changed outside it and the interior opens for a few weeks each summer.

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   National Museum of Archeology, History and Art

   Luxembourg's national museum of archaeology, history and art, whose main house stands on the old Fishmarket in the Ville Haute. It also runs the Musee Drai Eechelen, inside Fort Thuengen of 1732, and the Roman villa at Echternach, along with research centres on the fortress and the country's art archive.

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   Mudam

   I. M. Pei's museum of modern art, opened in 2006 on the ruined walls of Fort Thüngen, so that a nineteenth-century artillery fort forms the base of a glass and limestone gallery. The commission was contested for years and the result largely won the argument.

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   Saint Michael's Church, Luxembourg

   The oldest surviving religious building in Luxembourg City, founded in 987 on the site of the counts' chapel and rebuilt after each of the sieges that flattened the quarter around it. Its present shape is essentially seventeenth century.

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   Gëlle Fra

   An obelisk of 1923 on Constitution Square carrying a gilded female figure, raised to the Luxembourgers who volunteered for the Allied armies. The Nazis pulled it down in 1940; the statue was found under a stadium in 1980 and put back in 1985.

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   Fischbach Castle

   A castle north of Luxembourg City, medieval in origin and much rebuilt, which has been the private residence of the grand ducal family since 1962. It is not open to the public; the village and the valley around it are.

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   Fortress of Luxembourg

   The fortifications of Luxembourg City, built up over eight centuries by Burgundians, Habsburgs, Spanish, French and Prussians until it was called the Gibraltar of the North. The treaty of 1867 required its demolition; the casemates tunnelled through the rock survive and are open.

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    Villa Vauban

    An art museum in Luxembourg City showing eighteenth and nineteenth-century painting bought from private collections.

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   Bock

   The rock spur on which Count Siegfried built a castle in 963 — the act from which the city and eventually the country date. It has been fortified, blown up and refortified repeatedly, and the tunnels bored through it in the eighteenth century can be walked.

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   Place Guillaume II

   A square in the middle of the Ville Haute in Luxembourg City. It is known as the Knuedler, after the knotted cord worn by the Franciscans whose friary stood here.

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   Place d'Armes

   A square in the middle of the old town of Luxembourg City. It was originally the parade ground of the garrison, and it fills with residents and visitors especially in summer, when bands play in the pavilion.

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   Neumünster Abbey

   A Benedictine abbey in the Grund, rebuilt in 1688 after the previous buildings were destroyed, later a barracks and then a prison — the Gestapo held political detainees in it. Since 2004 it has been a public cultural centre, which the city considers a form of repair.

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   Sandweiler German war cemetery

   A Second World War cemetery at Sandweiler in southern Luxembourg. It holds 10,913 German soldiers killed in the Battle of the Bulge between the winter of 1944 and the spring of 1945.

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   Ansembourg Castle

   A medieval castle in central Luxembourg, one of those in the Valley of the Seven Castles. It stands high above the village of Ansembourg and remains the private home of the Count and Countess of Ansembourg.

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   Parc Merveilleux

   A children's park just east of Bettembourg, laid out in 1956 around tableaux from fairy tales. Alongside them are exotic birds, animals in open enclosures, a pony ranch, a miniature railway and adventure playgrounds; it opens daily from Easter until early October.

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   Dudelange Radio Tower

   A steel lattice broadcasting tower 285 metres high near Dudelange in Luxembourg. When it was completed in 1957 it was the tallest structure in the country and the fourth tallest lattice tower in the world.

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   Altmünster Abbey

   A Benedictine abbey that stood on the Altmünster plateau between the fish market and Clausen in Luxembourg City.

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    Clairefontaine Abbey

    A former Cistercian nunnery near Clairefontaine at Arlon in Belgium. It was founded in the middle of the thirteenth century and closed in 1796; the site is now a ruin and a place of pilgrimage.

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