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Kneiff, Berg Castle, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Luxembourg and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Hill in the commune of Troisvierges, Luxembourg
A hill in the Ardennes, in Troisvierges commune in northern Luxembourg, close to the Belgium–Germany–Luxembourg tripoint. At 560 metres (1,840 ft) it is the country's highest point, 1 metre above Buurgplaatz, which was thought to be the highest until 1997.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. David Edgar assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5
Castle in Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg's main residence, in Colmar-Berg, central Luxembourg, near where the Attert and the Alzette, two of the country's most important rivers, meet.
Photo: Viatoris, CC BY-SA 3.0
Roman Catholic cathedral of Luxembourg City
The Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg City, in the south of the country. It began as a Jesuit church, whose cornerstone was laid in 1613.
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0
Official residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
A palace in Luxembourg City, southern Luxembourg: the grand duke's official residence and where he carries out most of his work as head of state, though he mainly lives at Berg Castle, in Colmar-Berg.
Photo: EEJCC, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fort within the larger Luxembourg Fortress
A historic fort in Luxembourg City, in the south of Luxembourg, standing in Dräi Eechelen Park, in the city's north-eastern district of Kirchberg.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Medieval castle in Luxembourg
A castle at Vianden, in northern Luxembourg, among the biggest fortified castles anywhere west of the Rhine. Its origins go back to a Roman outpost of the fourth century and to the 10th century; the castle as it is best known was built in the Romanesque style between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Photo: Roland Struwe, uploader was Sneecs at de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
A hill in Troisvierges commune, northern Luxembourg, whose summit, 559-metre-high (1,834 ft), lies in the Éislek region at 50.1615°N 6.0281°E.
Photo: Cornischong at Luxembourgish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Double-decked arch bridge in Luxembourg City
A two-deck arch bridge in Luxembourg City, southern Luxembourg. Road traffic crosses the Pétrusse on it in one direction only, going from Boulevard Royal, in Ville Haute, to Avenue de la Liberté, in Gare, on the Bourbon Plateau.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Art museum in Luxembourg-Kirchberg , Luxembourg
Properly the Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, a modern art museum in Luxembourg City, southern Luxembourg. It stands where the old Fort Thüngen was, on the southwestern edge of the Kirchberg-plateau, close to many of the city's European Union institutions.
Photo: Jean-noël Lafargue, CC BY 2.5
Roman Catholic church in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Standing in Fishmarket, in the central Ville Haute district of Luxembourg City, a church of the Roman Catholic faith.
Photo: Caranorn, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a landlocked Western European country, with Belgium to its west and north, Germany to its east and France to its south and west. Luxembourg City, the capital and the most populous city, is one of four places where the European Union has its institutional seats, and several EU institutions are based there, above all the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's highest judicial authority.
Officially The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Known locally as Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Lëtezebuerg.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Kneiff, Berg Castle, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg and Grand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Luxembourg that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
French, German, Luxembourgish. The currency is EUR.
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