The identities of Luxembourgish landscape: the Echternach site and a challenge for an integrated perspective of its protection and valorization

The Luxembourg’s landscape is one of the most interesting in Europe. Concentrated in a small territory, it represents a synthesis of the characteristics of Northern European landscape. During this last decade the economic development meant a great growth for buildings enterprises and also several impact on the identity of the Luxembourgish landscape. The institutions involved in landscape management are three Ministries and there is an Observatory of natural environment. The contribution aims to analyze current landscape policies and also to deepen methodological and theoretical aspects that currently have to be considered by policies, with particular reference to the historical site of Echternach that, in the past, has been involved in an UNESCO study and shows us the need considering, at the same time, urban site and natural landscape. This allows us to verify the present challenges for an effective action to protect and valorise the Luxembourgish identity.