Transfer from Brussels Airport to Luxembourg
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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small country bordered by Belgium, France and Germany, harmoniously merging the characteristics of both Germanic and Latin cultures. There is no other Grand Duchy in the world, and Luxembourg is the second smallest state in the European Union.
It has a prosperous industry of steel and high technology, an almost unavoidable location between the highly developed German and French states, unimaginable natural beauty compared to its extension. Luxembourg is one of the three richest countries in the world, with a high standard of living and prices matching to that standard.
Transfers2airports.com offers the best rates for low cost airport taxi transfers between the city of Luxembourg and Brussels Airport and Charleroi Airport. Upon arrival at the airport, your driver will wait for you at the meeting point (the meeting point is always specified in your airport transfer voucher). If you need a taxi or airport transfer from Luxembourg to Brussels or Charleroi Airports, your driver will inform you about the exact pick up time at least 24 hours before the transfer.
Concise History
The city of Luxembourg was founded in 963. The city occupied a sort of key position in Western Europe, therefore it had an eventful future in prospect. Giving its location at the crossroad of Western Europe Luxembourg became heavily fortified, and visitors can still admire the huge city walls and towers that are its most distinctive cityscape. Due to its aforementioned position, Luxembourg was raised up to a Duchy that had a much larger territory stretched in present-day Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and France. The powerful Habsburg dinasty ruled over the land until the late Renaissance times.
When the Napoleonic wars came to an end, the Duchy of Luxembourg was granted to the Netherlands. It became a member of the German confederacy, and the citadel was quartered by Prussian troops. Luxembourg remained a strategic lock that every state aimed at controlling. It was granted the title "Grand Duchy" in 1815 losing some territories at the same time that belong to France and Germany today.
In the 19th century, military developments and the appearance of artillery made Luxembourg obsolete as a stronghold, and it became little more than a principally peripheral territory of no strategic interest. The Germans abandoned their claim to rule this territory, and moved out their garrison. The western half of the Duchy was annexed to Belgium in 1839, and the Netherlands granted it complete independence in 1867. Since then, Luxembourg arose from a poor farming country to a highly developed economy based on financial services and high-tech industries.
Luxembourg was one of the most active battlefields of the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-45, a story well documented in the museum at Diekirch. The state gave up its neutrality in 1948 when it entered into the Benelux Customs Union and it joined NATO in 1949. In 1957 Luxembourg was one of the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (later the European Union) and, in 1999, it joined the Euro currency area.
Climate an terrain
The climate is very similar to the middle part of Western Europe, being continental with mild winters, although January and February can be very cold with temperatures as low as -15°C. The summer is often very hot in Luxembourg; the temperature in July and August reaches around 30 °C. The landscape consists of gently rolling uplands with broad, shallow valleys, with the slightly mountainous part in the north, and steep slope down to Moselle flood plain in the south.