In general, cities show off with architecturally and historically important edifices and this city exhibits enough too cf the Adolph Brücke which was inaugurated in 1900. It is a masterpiece in stone. Another historical component of the city of Luxemburg is the palace of the grand duke, which was partly built in renaissance style, whereby you can recognise the Spanish-Moorish influence in the connecting friezes. Thanks to the monument conservators, parts of the historic city were renovated and registered in the World’s Cultural Heritage programme of UNESCO. A real treasure chest is ST; Michel’s Church with its baroque high altar from Bartholomäus Namür and its Pieta from the 17th century. The cathedral with its crypt harmonise with the old, high trees that bestow shadow in summer. On the other hand, Luxemburg is more renowned for being a financial centre and its banks are its figureheads. Currently, the steel industry which made a large part of our prosperity possible is on the decline and people have to accept restructuring measures – including mergers. Nevertheless, the bank business is booming. In former times, the city was not known for the latter- mentioned branch of the economy, but carried the name capital of the roses. The luxemburgish rose-growers were renowned for their rose variations and were even internationally unrivalled. Even oversees thy sold stems and flowers. Especially the area called Limpertsberg, situated in the outskirts of the city, was suited to a broad breeding of roses for the ground was free from buildings. (Today there still is a large area for a park with partial exotic tree population and an artistically designed pond etc). Almost every individual house at the time had a garden and the inhabitants strove for the honour of having the nicest roses which is the origin of the city so named above. Today only street names remind us of former times - names like “rue des roses” or “Rousegärtchen” (little rose garden). By taking a stroll you can see here and there wrought iron roses on protective grills or stylised flowers as ornaments on house walls.. In the course of time, breeding roses has slipped into oblivion - one of the reasons being selling building land is more lucrative than selling flowers. Recently, however, people are thinking about the old tradition. The LCTO LUXEMBURG CITY TOURIST OFFICE offers a pedestrian circuit through Limpertsberg to get to know historical sights and lovely gardens. In an attractive manner this circuit is called RosaLi – the roses of Limpertsberg.
HOLI (Luxembourg)
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