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Location: Vianden Canton, Luxemburg

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1. View of Vianden Castle – Vianden Castle loop from Vianden

18.0km

05:19

520m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Vianden Castle – View of Vianden Castle loop from Vianden

8.91km

02:41

290m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Vianden Castle – River Our loop from Fouhren

9.90km

02:47

200m

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Mark Graumans

August 12, 2021

Parking is possible on the road: schank. You can park there for 5 hours. If you drive through that road, you will find even more parking spaces on the side of the road. They are indefinite. In the city it is a maximum of 3 hours parking.

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Stephan N

October 9, 2023

The rocky ridge above today's town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. The excavations carried out in 1994 at the foot of the castle chapel led to the realization, based on the findings secured in a second relocation, that parts of the rising masonry of the late antique tower must have still existed in the Merovingian period, and that this square part of the building was the only remaining structure from late antiquity in the first medieval period System was integrated.At a prehistoric road connection, which led as a branch ("side road") from the great Roman road Reims - Cologne through the Ardennes and the Ourtal into the Sauertal and via Echternach in the direction of Bitburg to the then metropolis of Trier, was built at the beginning of the In late antiquity, the first fortification was built on the Schlossberg, probably as a civilian-used “refuge” during the time of constant Germanic threat (around 275 AD).
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castle-vianden.lu/geschichte

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Wandern In Luxemburg

January 26, 2021

more information at wanderninluxemburg.com

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1. View of Vianden Castle – Vianden Castle loop from Vianden

2. Vianden Castle – View of Vianden Castle loop from Vianden

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