Lousberg Viewpoint
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From Lousberg, Aachen’s location near Belgium and the Netherlands becomes clearer. Modern borders are close, but the region’s economic and cultural connections have always crossed them.
Aachen’s medieval fame came from empire; its modern reality is metropolitan and cross-border. The viewpoint is a good place to end because it shrinks the monumental centre back into a landscape of roads, neighbouring towns and frontiers that have moved repeatedly.