Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

CENTRAL AND

EASTERN FLANDERS

(see pp140–69)

EASTERN WALLONIA

(see pp212–33)

CENTRAL
WALLONIA
(see pp192–211)

GRAND DUCHY

OF LUXEMBOURG

(see pp234–53)

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Luxembourg City (see pp240–45)

has a refined elegance befitting

the capital of the Grand Duchy.

This is exemplified by the large

central square named Place

Guillaume II, with its eques-

trian statue of the grand duke

of the 1840s, William II.

The River Semois (see pp228–9) snakes

through the Belgian provinces of Luxembourg

and Namur, past a charmed landscape of

forested hills. Walkers, canoeists and

motorists come to enjoy the tranquillity

and the breathtakingly spectacular views.

Waterloo (see pp196–7)

has been preserved as a

battlefield site since the

defeat of Napoleon in

1815. The man-made
      hill of the Butte du Lion
      is its central landmark.

Antwerp (see pp144–55) is Belgium’s second

biggest city, a major European port and an

industrial hub. However, its historic centre

gives little indication of this. Its primary land-

mark is the magnificent Gothic Onze-Lieve-

Vrouwekathedraal, whose dainty spire soars

above the stump of its uncompleted twin.