Luxembourg is actually a very small European country, and its area as a whole can be compared with the sizes of Moscow. Moreover, the most interesting - half of its inhabitants make up foreigners. The Luxembourgs themselves as correctly calls themselves "Lettering" and very proudly belong to their rank of the world's only virtually great duchy. Locals speak here at once in three state languages and each year participate in an unusual dancing procession in Echterna.
On the territory of Luxembourg still have been preserved at the side of the side - the so-called underground network of tunnels, which have a length of seventeen kilometers. It is noteworthy that they are protected by UNESCO. It is amazing, but the earliest sections of these caasemates were built back in 1644 and then gradually they expanded. They were also naturally used during the last two world wars as bomb shelter, and at the same time could accommodate almost up to 35,000 people. Moreover, it is interesting - from many vintage houses of Luxembourg, even today, you can go to the side of the groundwater in the groundcases.
The second remarkable fact from Luxembourg's life is that a total of more than half a million people live here, but almost fifty percent of them are citizens of other countries mainly such as France, Portugal and Italy. Also here, almost every day residents come to work from neighboring states - Germany, Belgium and France, since they are attracted to very favorable conditions for work. So, if you find yourself here in public transport or in some street cafes, you can safely hear the conversations almost ten different European languages.
In addition, Luxembourbles are all polls, and not violent, but most likely quite voluntary. The fact is that in the territory of the country there are three state languages - German, French and Luxembourg (it really exists). Luxembourg is a Franco-Moselian dialect of German, but he received his status only in 1974. Moreover, among all these three languages, absolute equality is traced, so you can safely come across such a material in any newspaper, where the title would be in German, and the rest of the text is printed in Luxembourg.
Another interesting fact about this country is the one that the highest paid and most prestigious profession, oddly enough, is the profession of school teacher, and the starting salary of young teachers in this country is the highest in the world. That is, the specialist who came to work for the first time without any experience receives 6141 euros a month, but teachers with experience can already earn about 10683 euros per month.
Wine plays a key role in Luxembourg's life, and very many festivals are devoted in this country. Here, every year this parade takes such a parade, in the course of which the participants dressed in solemn clothing, then beauty contests are even produced and they actually choose the grape queen. Well, in the Luxembourg town of Schwubzanzh, during this festival, a fountain with wine is usually built, where, instead of water from the fountain, this beautiful drink flows. Such a Luxembourg miracle can be seen once a year, and this happens on the first Sunday of September of the month.
In 1980, the Swedish artist Carl Frederick Reuthersvord created a sculpture called "No violence" in memory of the murder of the Great Singer and composer John Lennon. She immediately bought the Government of Luxembourg, but subsequently transferred to the UN headquarters in New York. However, Luxembourg still did not remain deprived and in the city district of Kirschberg was established exactly the same monument. By the way, in the whole world now there are about 30 copies of this monument.
In the eastern part of the country there is an Echtern town, in which an unusual procession passes every year, and she passes a long time ago and even in 2010 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Locals to music do an unusual way for about about one and a half kilometers, starting from the local river and ending near the church in the city center. However, they do not just go, and at the same time danted in a completely special way - they make several steps forward, and then already back. Such a procession is essentially the most recently preserved religious dance processing in Europe.
Oddly enough, but it is in Luxembourg that is the largest number of Mishlenian restaurants. However, this concept is conditionally, because there are ten restaurants here, but if you recalculate their amount per capita, thus it turns out that Luxembourg is leading in all indicators. Well, the local restaurant Chiggeri in 2009 even got into the Guinness Book of Records, since it is the owner of the longest wine list in the world. And this is not surprising, since this institution offers to choose from 1946 varieties of various wines.
Another interesting fact is probably not known to everyone. This is that the whole world is obliged to such a concept as Luxembourg. The phrase "Schengen visa or zone", and at the same time, and the agreement actually got its name by the name of the small town of Schungn, which was located on the territory of Luxembourg. The fact is that in 1985, representatives of the five states signed a Schengen agreement, and this event took place on the Princess Maria Astrid ship, which was moored on the Moselle river quite near the city of Schengen. However, this place was not chosen by no accident, since it is here that the borders of three countries - France, Germany and Luxembourg converge. This agreement entered into force only after 10 years, but in 1999 it essentially ceased to exist because the European Union was transformed into the Schengen legislation.