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the<br />

ArDeNNes<br />

Regions<br />

the ArDeNNes<br />

One cAstle cAn hide AnOther<br />

Visit suggestions<br />

Bourscheid and its medieval castle - Vianden with its castle and Victor Hugo<br />

Museum - Brandenbourg and the ruins of its feudal castle - Diekirch, cradle<br />

of the <strong>luxembourg</strong>ish tourism - Esch-sur-Sûre and the upper Sure Lake -<br />

Clervaux and the world’s most important photographic exhibition “Family<br />

of Man”.<br />

The Battle of the Bulge (1944/45)<br />

<strong>Luxembourg</strong> - Hamm with its American military cemetery - Sandweiler with its<br />

German military cemetery - Ettelbrück, gateway to the Ardennes, with General<br />

Patton’s Memorial and the “Musée Historique du Général Patton” - Diekirch<br />

with its impressive Museum of the Battle of the Bulge - Bastogne, Belgian<br />

border town, where one of the most decisive battles took place, and its<br />

Memorial and Museum “Mardasson” that reflects in a very authentic manner<br />

one of the bloodiest battles of our era.<br />

If former <strong>Luxembourg</strong>ish Ardennes castles attracted the romantics, the heights and valleys<br />

enchant nowadays by their charm and poetry. Both the imposing Bourscheid and majestic<br />

Vianden castles are medieval jewels in the Ardennes region, melting pot of culture and nature,<br />

charming villages, raw rocks and romantic rivers.

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