Discover Bascharage: Art and Hiking Trails

Bascharage offers several specific points of interest to help you plan your trip: public art, historic cultural sites and two CFL hiking routes with different start and end points. A named sculpture stands in a fountain on Place Claus Cito; the cemetery and church add a Cito statue, a dated grave and a bell tower to the local attractions. During your stay, you can weigh up cultural sites against a hike chosen according to the route.

Art and historic points of interest

Place Claus Cito was created for the sculptor Claus Cito. The sculpture “Femme à genoux avec guirlande de fleurs” stands in a fountain on the square. The square’s dedication and the artwork are two separate points of reference: the dedication links the square to Claus Cito, while the sculpture is identified by its own title. If you want to include public art in your travel plans, this is a specific place where you can see a named work.

There is a statue by Cito in the cemetery in Bascharage; the cemetery is also home to a Goedgen grave dating from 1908. The Church of St. Willibrord dates from 1973 and has a bell tower. Bascharage was first mentioned on 4 April 1281. The dates refer to different things: 1281 to the first mention of the locality, 1908 to the grave and 1973 to the church. They therefore do not form a single construction timeline, but instead take you from the history of the locality to specific places and monuments.

Choose hiking routes by start and finish

CFL hiking route 31 runs from Niederkorn station to Bascharage station. CFL hiking route 32 runs from Bascharage via Sanem to Dippach-Reckange. The routes therefore differ in their sequence of places: route 31 ends at Bascharage station, while route 32 starts there and continues via Sanem. To choose between them, you can first decide whether you want Bascharage to be your arrival point or the starting point of your hike.

Specific sections of route 32 are also described. The first approximately 1.5 km pass through a small forest to the national cycle route PC6 Piste cyclable des Trois Cantons. From there, the route follows the railway tracks until it ends at Dippach-Gare station. This means you can get a sense of this hike not only from its sequence of places, but also from the forest section, the connection to the cycle route and the later stretch along the tracks. These features give you different points of reference for planning, depending on whether you want to focus primarily on the start and finish or on the route described.

A focus on brewing culture

Brasserie Nationale offers a guided tour of the brewery. Visitors get an insight into the production processes and the more than two centuries of brewing history. The tour includes a tasting of several beers from the range at BrauAtelier, a microbrewery. Brasserie Nationale is considered Luxembourg’s largest and oldest brewery. If you want to include this activity, check the booking conditions before making plans; they may change.

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