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E Musée National d’Histoire VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
et d’Art
Marché-aux-Poissons. Tel 479330-1. Practical Information
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun, 25 km (16 miles) SE of Arlon.
10am–8pm Thu. & (free 5–8pm Thu). Road Map F5. * 111,300.
- = ∑ mnha.lu n 30 Place Guillame II; 222809.
A group of elegant town houses _ Octave (3rd week after
and a monolithic modern block Easter). ∑ lcto.lu
combine to form the intriguing Transport
Musée National d’Histoire et k £ @
d’Art. The historical section of
the museum covers the history
of Luxembourg from prehist- 1746, the Austrians excavated
oric to medieval times, and soft sandstone beneath the
Glass façade of the Musée d’Histoire de la includes numerous Gallo- castle, creating a network of
Ville de Luxembourg Roman treasures from galleries, staircases and tunnels
archaeological finds: coins, over a distance of 23 km
E Musée d’Histoire de la mosaics, sculpture, jewellery (14 miles). These casemates
Ville de Luxembourg and domestic wares. There are included gun emplacements
14 Rue du St-Esprit. Tel 47964500. also decorative and fine arts, for 50 canons, munitions stores,
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun, paintings from the Middle Ages workshops, stables and kitchens;
10am–8pm Thu. & 7 = to modern times and work by sufficient for a garrison of 1,200
∑ mhvl.lu artists from all over Europe, men. They were part of a
The history of Luxembourg including watercolours of the programme of reinforcements
is revealed in this sleek, ultra- city by landscape painter JMW that made the city almost
modern museum ingeniously Turner (1775–1851). impregnable – or what French
converted from four townhouses military engineer Lazare Carnot
dating from the 17th to 19th P The Bock (1753–1823) termed the
centuries. Modern interactive Montée de Clausen. Open Mar–Oct: Gilbraltar of the North. The
display techniques combine with 10am–5pm daily. & 8 casements were also used
artifacts and informational panels The city’s original castle was as bomb shelters for 35,000
to narrate the story of the city. An built on the Rocher du Bock. people during World War II.
added attraction is the view from In AD 963, it was captured Tours take visitors around a
the huge glass panoramic lift and reinforced by Siegfried of small portion of the tunnels.
that rises through all six of the Lorraine, and became the key The Archaeological Crypt
museum’s levels, gliding past stronghold of the city for presents the excavated
1,000 years of history. centuries. Between 1737 and remains of the Bock castle.

Luxembourg City
BLVD K ONRAD ADENAUER
VAL DES BONS MALADES Cour de 1 Palais Grand-Ducal
Justice
2 Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Centre
R LAURENT MÉNAGER R ST-MATHIEU AVENUE J F KENNEDY R DU FORT NIEDERGRUNEWALD 3 Casemates de Pétrusse
Européen
4 Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de
Kirchberg
Luxembourg
ALLÉE SCHEFFER DUCHESSE CHARLOTTE Musée d’Art Moderne R DU FORT THÜNGEN 5 Musée National d’Histoire et
PONT DE GRANDE
d’Art
Grand-Duc Jean
BLVD DE LA FOIRE AVE DE LA PORTE NEUVE CÔTE D'EICH MONTÉE DE PFAFFENTHAL RUE RUE DES Dräi Eechelen 7 Villa Vauban
6 The Bock
PFAFFENTHAL
TROIS GLANDS
8 Kirchberg
CLAUSEN
DU PRINCE HENRI R BEAUMONT d’Histoire et d’Art M ONTÉE DE q Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-
MANSFELD
Villa Alzette ALLÉE PIERRE DE 9 Centre Européen
BOULEVARD ROYAL
VA UBAN
Vauban R GOERGEN 0 Cour de Justice
Musée National
CLAUSEN
AVE EMILE
Duc Jean
BOULEVARD ALDRINGEN PL E RUE RUE PHILIPPE II GRAND RUE AUX HERBES Palais The Bock w Musée Draï Eechelen
REUTER
R SIGEFROI
PLACE
Alzette
GUILLAUME II
Airport
AVE
R DU MARCHÉ
Cathédrale
MONTEREY HAMELIUS Notre-Dame Grand-Ducal R DE TRÊVES 5 km (3 miles) 0 metres 500
Musée d’Histoire de
AVE MARIE THÉRÈSE PONT de Pétrusse BLVD FD ROOSEVELT GRUND 0 yards 500
la Ville de Luxembourg
Casemates
Alzette
ADOLPHE
Train Station BLVD DE Pétrusse BLVD DU GÉNÉRAL PATTON Key
1 km (0.5 miles) LA PÉTRUSSE R ST- Q UIRIN
Pont
Viaduc Street-by-Street pp246–7
For keys to symbols see back flap
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