Welcome to Luxembourg !
Parlez-vous français? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Do you speak English? Or Lëtzebuergesch?
If you want to talk to the young woman or man at the nearby cafe table, first of all you have to find out what language they speak. In the Grand Duchy, one of the founder states of the European Union, about 43 per cent of the 510.000 inhabitants are foreign.
This
multicultural ambience
of day-to-day contact with people from the four corners of the earth gives the small state an astonishingly cosmopolitan outlook – not least thanks to the
European institutions
and the
financial centre
. But of course it is far easier to get around the capital (100.000 inhabitants) than it is in Berlin or Paris. The distances are short. There is a lively nightlife scene around the fashionable bars of Hollerich, Grund and Clausen in the capital, or in the Rockhal and the Kulturfabrik at Esch / Alzette.
Furthermore, there are plenty of sports, leisure activities as well as events:
cinemas
and
climbing parks
,
mountain bike trails
and an
enormous cultural range
– from
jazz
in the mediaeval city,
contemporary art at MUDAM
,
theatre
in every language or
classical music
in the most beautiful new building in Luxembourg, the Philharmonie. All this set against the romantic backdrop of the mediaeval city (a UNESCO world heritage site since 1994), the
castles
in the richly-forested north and the
vineyards
along the Mosel.
In the next few pages you will discover the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s many facets...
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10 shorts films about Luxembourg:
http://www.promoteluxembourg.com/
Further information:
http://www.luxembourg.public.lu/fr/index.html
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