European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Stapes photo Peter Jaeger Luxembourg Lity seen through one of the Many viaducts that run through the Petrusse Valley and Over the Lazette River connecting the City and its suburbs. Luxembourg b by Linda Whitt travel editor i a pm hours is a split level i it. Its i enter is built on no i k lowering Over the Grund Tui Heel workers us Mif i is l i a Ominga fashionable e to live. I m m i it in i n loot Means a lot of t climbing. Jul there s \.\,n to get View of the fortress i ily. A Little Jurist new i his season loops Down and round to the Green Petrusse Valley past the fort Ilu i inns Hose strength i in be b t from in Low. I in1 minium commentary in five Langu Ges in Lulitu i finish just tune in the headphones 1 More a i i Ting than on your left see. It s a or narrated by Melusina Rit r of Siegfried t e count to built tin first fortress Here in re 1. The c limbs i cobbled Street to he ind slops Lon enough for Ever one to make photos us the honeycomb to d of the both opposite. Then in winds Back through tin streets of the crud crossing the Al Ette River with Ted the Many breweries and tanneries past the Hij a water Marks of its hoods. I he flavor of Luxembourg upper and lower i1 International for 400 years it was important As a powerful fort second Only to Gibraltar in the i chessboard of i Uro Pran a i lairs. Us of til it at ions were dismantled toward the end of the list Century and the t Ity has i different role As ,1 leading Light in the i european economic Community favourable Laws make it in International banking Center As Well. Hie i ily capital of a Small duchy of the same name has an impressive Cathedra several Lovel Hurt Hes and two Good museums the muses de i l Tat containing everything from roman remains to Folk costumes and the Musee a. Pescatore with a olmec Tion of paintings by f Lemish masters. Visitors will want to take a look at the dui Al Palace and stroll along the glittering shopping Street the grand Rue. But most of All one tomes to i Luxembourg for the fortifications. Vau baud the military architect for the i Rench King i Ouis Xiv built almost everything Here. You can t avoid him said remand Cravat director of the grand hotel Cravat which overlooks the Petrusse Valley trom the Central City. I be built forts All Over Europe very Strong forts that could withstand any artillery of his Cravat recalls the artillery of a later age. As a boy of 12 when american Gen. Omar Bradley had his Headquarters in the hotel Cravat acted As an interpreter for the military. The dining room was Bradley s War room. It was practically papered with maps he said. We had the Gangway corps Here the All journalist unit that included Ben Wright and Waller Cronkite. Me-1 Hemingway stayed Here during the Battle of the bulge. We had a direct Tele phone line to the slates and i remember one mor Ling i Hemingway i ame Down the Steps and announced i be just divorced my wife " Cravat knows the history of his t ily and likes to talk about it. He said Luxembourg s first railway station was built about 100 years ago. Ii was made of Wood so it could be dismantled in Case of War. 1 it was the first thing built on that sidot the Valley he said. They could t build houses i Herr Liui was the line of the Valley is the Green Gorge of tile Little Al Etil River and the Petrusse a trickle of a Stream neatly c in Concrete. It is now a peaceful Park but its strategic importance is evident even to untrained yes the Bock Rock rises from in in a sleep Triangle literally the foundation of the City. In its prime1, the fortification consisted of three girdles of battlements including 24 forts three of which were Hen from Rock and an extraordinary 17-mile network of underground casimates. Under the treaty of London of 1hh7.1 Luxembourg became Neutral and the fortifications we re to be 3 sir Pes Magazine october 2, 1986
