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Casemates du Bock

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Casemates du Bock
Phone:
+352 22 28 09

Hours:
Sunday10am - 8:30pm
Monday10am - 8:30pm
Tuesday10am - 8:30pm
Wednesday10am - 8:30pm
Thursday10am - 8:30pm
Friday10am - 8:30pm
Saturday10am - 8:30pm


The Bock is a promontory in the north-eastern corner of Luxembourg City's old historical district. Offering a natural fortification, its rocky cliffs tower above the River Alzette which surrounds it on three sides. It was here that Count Siegfried built his Castle of Lucilinburhuc in 963, providing a basis for the development of the town which became Luxembourg. Over the centuries, the Bock and the surrounding defences were reinforced, attacked and rebuilt time and time again as the armies of the Burgundians, Habsburgs, Spaniards, Prussians and French vied for victory over one of Europe's most strategic strongholds, the Fortress of Luxembourg. Warring did not stop until the Treaty of London was signed in 1867, calling for the demolition of the fortifications. Ruins of the old castle and the vast underground system of passages and galleries known as the casemates continue to be a major tourist attraction.
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