What Is Luxembourg Famous For?
There are very few famous Luxemburgers, so anyone famous who even visited or stayed there for a few days is adopted as a national hero. Victor Hugo lived in Vianden Castle for three-and-a-half months in 1871, during his exile from France, and the poet Goethe stayed in the city for ten days. Both these men are now revered and remembered with statues and have streets named after them. Sporting heroes are thin on the ground, too. Luxembourg has had only one Olympic gold medal winner – Josy Barthel in the 1500m Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. However, the country does have an enviable Tour de France record, with three previous winners. Karl Marx was born just across the German border in Trier and is reputed to have begun considering the economic reasons for social conditions while observing the poverty of the winegrowers on the Luxembourg Moselle River. But most people associate the place with Radio Luxembourg, a commerical radio station based in the country back in the days when such things
There are very few famous Luxemburgers, so anyone famous who even visited or stayed there for a few days is adopted as a national hero. Victor Hugo lived in Vianden Castle for three-and-a-half months in 1871, during his exile from France, and the poet Goethe stayed in the city for ten days. Both these men are now revered and remembered with statues and have streets named after them. Sporting heroes are thin on the ground, too. Luxembourg has had only one Olympic gold medal winner – Josy Barthel in the 1500m Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games . However, the country does have an enviable Tour de France record, with three previous winners. Karl Marx was born just across the German border in Trier and is reputed to have begun considering the economic reasons for social conditions while observing the poverty of the winegrowers on the Luxembourg Moselle River. But most people associate the place with Radio Luxembourg, a commerical radio station based in the country back in the days when such things
