Alzette River Valley

Alzette River valley, Luxembourg, in 1970. The tall building above is the Tour Alcide de Gasperi, built in 1966. It was the first skyscraper on the Kirchberg. The industrial riverside scene is entirely gone today, though the disused smokestack is still there. IMG00289p1

Luxembourg

July 28th 1970
A visit to Luxembourg was the prelude to seeing Germany, Austria, Italy, and France in summer 1970. At that time, the cool way to travel from the USA to Europe was via Loftleidir Icelandic Airlines. Loftleidir flew from New York to Reykjavík and then on to Luxembourg, offering pioneering discount transatlantic airfares. Traveling this way, a one-night, one-day stopover visit to Iceland was added ... read more

Europe » Luxembourg » Luxembourg City

Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overr... ... read more

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