Guided tour in Luxemburg city
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| Daniel Capp |
| 15 January 2003 |
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Informations
Support: book
Media's author : Service des Sites et Monuments nationaux
Language : French
Editor : St-Paul
Publishing year : 1996
ISBN/ISSN : 2-87963-240-4
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| 15 cm x 21 cm 97 pages |
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The Wenzel itinerary is intended to cover a part ot the historic City with the aim of letting visitors discover a thousand years of the history of a human community, of the place in which it settled. The route has been chosen according to the architectural value and the historical importance of the various elements.
The Wenzel itinerary, strictly speaking, is a voyage through time and space across the oldest parts of the City of luxembourg.
In time, the Wenzel circuit begins in 963, when Count Siegfried acquired the Bock outcrop. So far as the evolution and expansion of the City is concerned, the urban surrounding walls, built from the end of the 12th century until the 16th century, bear witness.
The modern as well as the contemporary era have left to usan even more significant architectural testimony. In the valley of the Alzette are situated, among others, the remains of the Grund lock (18th century).
On the Plateau du Rham are 5 military barracks built in the 17th and 19th centuries. The Plateau du Saint-Esprit has another barracks (1685), several bastions, and a citadel (17th century) as well as a military hospital (19th century).
In space, the cultural itinerary tries to put in evidence the connection between the facts of the topography of the site and the urban tissue which developed there, that is to say, the interaction between man and his natural environment. The City of Luxembourg evolved on a site where the plateaux and the valleys coincided. This broken topography of the place leads us to say that the site of the City had been predestined by military ends which in their turn vividly influenced its planning.
The double aspect space/time constitutes the guiding thread of this cultural itinerary. It is permanently present and tangible for the visitor who, in 100 minutes, will travel through 1000 years of eventful and fascinating history. |
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