Explore Luxembourg

Location:
Luxembourg

Currency:
euro (EUR)

Communications:
The telephone code for Luxembourg: + 352

About:
Luxembourg is a country that literally developed around its capital city of the same name. It's smaller than the U.S. State of Rhode Island.

Founded in 963, Luxembourg (the city) known by the Roman (Luciilinburhuc) became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands.

It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867.

Overrun by Germany in both World Wars, it ended its neutrality in 1948 when it entered into the Benelux Customs Union and when it joined NATO the following year. In 1957, Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (later the European Union), and in 1999 it joined the euro currency area.

This beautiful, historic slice of land is today a prosperous constitutional monarchy, known as a international tax haven and banking center.