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France • Luxembourg
Strasbourg - Luxembourg: Nature and Heritage
Self Guided • 7 nights
Moderate
From £1,060
A small, wealthy country with an outsized capital: Luxembourg City's Old Town and fortifications have been UNESCO-listed since 1994, its steep river valleys are threaded with cycle paths and a free public lift, and its history stretches back to a 10th-century castle on a rocky outcrop above the Alzette.
Luxembourg currently features as the finishing point of our Strasbourg to Luxembourg cycling holiday - a fitting capital-to-capital finale after several days spent following canals and rivers through Alsace and Lorraine.
Self Guided • 7 nights
Moderate
From £1,060
Luxembourg City packs an unusual amount into a small footprint: a UNESCO World Heritage old town and Vauban fortifications, the world's only currently inhabited Grand Ducal Palace, and a lower town - the Grund, Clausen and Pfaffenthal districts - that feels like a different city entirely, strung along the Alzette gorge below.
It's also a genuinely cosmopolitan place, home to major EU institutions and a resident population that's nearly half foreign-born, with a cycling pedigree - several Tour de France winners among them - that belies the country's size.
Luxembourg has a temperate climate similar to its neighbours, with mild summers and cool winters. The capital itself is hillier than the surrounding river valleys - the old town sits high above the Alzette and Pétrusse gorges - though a free public lift at Pfaffenthal and a growing network of cycle paths make it easy to move between the upper and lower town without much effort.
“Luxembourg City was founded around 963 AD, when Count Siegfried built a castle on the Bock promontory above the Alzette river. The fortifications that grew up around it over the following centuries earned the city the nickname 'Gibraltar of the North', and its old quarter has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.”
LukeCo-founderYes. The capital has an expanding network of dedicated cycle paths through the old town, its parks, and the Alzette and Pétrusse valleys, with routes continuing out towards the Moselle Valley and the Ardennes.
Small as the country is, it has produced several Tour de France winners, including Charly Gaul, François Faber and Nicolas Frantz, and the Tour still passes through occasionally.
The UNESCO-listed Old Town and Pétrusse Casemates, the Grund and Pfaffenthal districts down in the Alzette valley (reachable by a free public glass lift), and the Corniche, sometimes called 'Europe's most beautiful balcony'.
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