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to Luxembourg. LUXEMBOURG. 33. Route. 285
)(fine view of Grund from the first), and enters the central station
(Gare Centrale) of Luxembourg.
43 M. Luxembourg. — Hotels. In the Old Town, 3/,-1'/; M. from
the station: eo Pe SSEUR (Pl. a3 ey 2), Rue de l’Arsenal, with
eestanrant, 90 BR, at 4-6, 0 ee D. 4 r.; HOTEL CoNTINENTAL
(Pl. b; B, 2), Rue de ae enal, 40 R. HOTEL DE
f Po E (Pl. c; B, 2), Av. de la Port
PD. 3 fr.; Hotr L DE ‘Luxemsoure (Pl. Ds
634 B. at 21/2-
.del’ Eau, with restaurant,
edie Hoe DE L’ANCRE-D'OR, Place Guillaume 7
OP). C; 3), 2 2-2/2, B. 1, D. 2/2 fr. — Near the Station (980 ft.):
Hore, Ci Wdsee C3 ap ah staurant, 2d R. at 3-5, B. 41/4, D
3 fr.; Hd 2 (Hét. de la Gare; Pl. e; C, 5), well spoken of; TxER-
Minus, R. 2 fr.
Cafés. Grand Café, Café du Commerce, Place d’Armes (Pl. B, 3). —
{Hofbrduhaus, Rue Notre-Dame (P1. B, C, 3), at the corner of the Rue de
{VAthénée, D. 43/2-2 fr.
Post & Telegraph Office (Pl. 17; B, 3), Rue du Génie.
Bookseller: Victor Bick, Rue du Curé 5 (P1gC33)3
Cabs. Per drive, 14 fr., at night in summer (9-6) 2, in winter (9-7) 21/2 fr.
+Per hour, 2 fr., each additional 1/s hr., 1/2 fr.: to Pulvermiihl (p. 287) 1/2,
to Walferdingen (p. 284) or to Hesperingen (p. 287) 21/2 fr.
Tramway from the railway-station through the town to the end of the
fAvenue de la Porte-Neuve (Pl. B, 4).
Luxembourg, formerly Liitzelburg, with 24,000 inhab., is the
{capital of the grand-duchy of Luxembourg. The town is situated
gfupon a rocky tableland bounded on three sides by abrupt precipi-
sfces, at the foot of which flow the Pétrusse and the Alsette, forming
{arrow ravines in which lie the busy lower portions of the town,
‘consisting of Pfaffental, to the N.E., Clausen, to the E., and Grund,
sis oito the 8.E.; the last two suburbs are separated by the Bock (p. 286).
an #A new quarter, containing the central station, has sprung up on the
4S. side of the plateau, above the valley of the Pétrusse. The striking
i iview of the town, with its variety of mountain and valley, gardens
jand rocks, groups of trees and huge viaducts, is graphically de-
Db iscribed by Goethe in his ‘Campagne in Frankreich’.
Luxembourg was fortified as early as the 10th cent.; the works,
*which were partly hewn out of the solid rock, were strengthened by each
psucceeding raler, from Henry IV., Count of Luxembourg, afterwards Ger-
iman Emp. as Henry VI. (d. 4313), and his son John, the blind king of
€Bohemia (killed at Créc 346), through the periods ‘of its possession by
{the Burgundians, the Spaniards, and the French (whose celebrated en-
jzineer Vauban restored a great part of the fortress). By the Peace of
Rys wyck in 1697 Luxembourg came into the hands of the Spaniards again,
abut in 1714 it passed to the Austrians. In 1795 Marshal] Bender surrendered
Hit to the French Republicans. In 1815-66 Luxembourg was a fortress of the
i3erman Confederation. The fortifications were condemned to demolition
toy the Treaty of London in 1867, and a few only of their oldest parts, in
{the valley of the Alzette and the Pétrusse, have been allowed to remain.
From the railway-station (Pl. C, 6) we may proceed to the N.,
iby Me Avenue de la Gare (tramway, see above), to the Viaduct
(Pl. C, 4), which was constructed in 1864 and is 1150 ft. long.
Or we may bear to the N.W. and follow the Avenue Adolphe and
{the Boulevard de la Liberté to the Pont Adolphe (P1.B, 4,3), a sand-
Histone bridge (690 ft. long) built in 1900-1903 by M _ Séjourné of |
