Skip to content
Gowalko
Get the app
History and Monuments of Luxembourg

History and Monuments of Luxembourg

Luxembourg · Luxembourg

4 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a focused route through Luxembourg's history and monuments, beginning at Palais Grand Ducal, a castle, and continuing to Postgebai Stad Lëtzebuerg, a historic building. At Luxembourg City: Old Quarters & Fortifications, pause with the historic old quarters and the fortifications named in the stop before continuing to Fort Thüngen, a fort. Take your time at each landmark and let the changing types of monuments give the walk its story.

The walk

  1. Grand Ducal Palace

    Grand Ducal Palace

    A palace that began as a governor’s office and became Luxembourg’s working seat of power.

  2. Postgebai Stad Lëtzebuerg

    Postgebai Stad Lëtzebuerg

    A grand post office whose final design replaced Art Nouveau ambition with palace-inspired Neo-Renaissance.

  3. Luxembourg City: Old Quarters & Fortifications

    Luxembourg City: Old Quarters & Fortifications

    A city that grew into the Gibraltar of the North, then had to dismantle its own defences.

  4. Fort Thüngen

    Fort Thüngen

    A fort reduced to three acorn-topped towers, then rebuilt as a museum

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

More walks in Luxembourg

7 walks
Featured14 stopsLuxembourg · Luxembourg

Luxembourg’s Historic Core, Fortifications and Viewpoints

4 stopsLuxembourg · Luxembourg

Bock Casemates Walk

3 stopsLuxembourg · Luxembourg

Chemin de la Corniche Viewpoints

How a walk works

The guide starts talking when you arrive.

This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

Continue in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.