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Extract from the Echternach Travel Guides:
Now a town of some 4000 people,
ECHTERNACH
grew up around an abbey founded here in 698 by the English missionary St Willibrord. The centre is the wedge-shaped
place du March
, an elegant conglomeration of ancient buildings, notably the fifteenth-century turreted
Town Hall
, with its Gothic loggia of 1520. The town's real attraction is, however, the
abbey
itself, just north of place du March, signalled by the spires of its enormous
church
, rebuilt to a former eleventh-century plan after heavy bomb damage in 1944. The most diverting part of the interior is the cryp...
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