Luxembourg Date(s): March 3-4, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 26 of 26 Total. 21 Visits.
1 Luxair flight on tarmac at LCY; Thames River in background
2 Notre-Dame Cathedral with Pétrusse Casemates in the foreground
3 Place d'Armes
4 William II of Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840-1849, at Place Guillaume
5 guard at Grand Ducal Palace
6 Grand Ducal Palace
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8 Église St-Jean in Grund
9 train station, near my hotel
10 All Seasons Luxembourg Centre
11 long walk on road from bus stop to World War II American Cemetery and Memorial
12 Memorial at American Cemetery
13 map of WWII Europe after D-Day
14 General George Patton's grave
15 over 5000 American soldiers are buried here, many lost during the Battle of the Bulge
16 Gëlle Fra in Constitution Square - it's a war memorial dedicated to Luxembourgers who volunteered for service in the armed forces of the Allied Powers during World War I
17 Notre-Dame Cathedral
18 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964, when she abdicated in favour of her son
19 inside Bock Casemates - a series of tunnels under the old castle
20 digging for the tunnels started in 1644 during the Spanish period; the French and especially the Austrians completed the network (23km in total)
21 Neumünster Abbey and Église St-Jean viewed from inside the casemates
22 looking out from the living quarters of Marshal von Bender, the Habsburg officer who, at the age of 82, coordinated resistance to the French siege in 1794–95
23 a 47 metre deep well in the casemates
24 looking back up at the casemates and Église Saint-Michel
25 During WWII, they were used as a bomb shelter able to accommodate up to 35,000 people
