The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a constitutional monarchy, is an independent sovereign state, tucked between Belgium, France and Germany. The country is 84 km (51 miles) long and 52 km (32 miles) wide, encompassing an area of 2586 square kilometres (999 square miles) with a population of aprox. 435 700 inhabitants.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg enjoys a mild climate without extremes. The air is clean, beneficial and health giving. It had some snow when I was there (Feb 2001)and the temperature was around 0 C.

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