Blast furnaces stand beside lecture halls here, and concerts beside laboratories. A whole new town has grown out of red iron and old steel, and something in it changes every week.
I Love Belval keeps track of it so you do not miss it: concerts and exhibitions, university events, markets, new openings, milestones, and the changes to the neighbourhood as they happen.
And something simpler: whether the door is actually open.
What’s here
Over 240 places, each one checked in person: cafés, restaurants, shops, and the ones nobody writes about but everybody needs, like the pharmacy, the supermarket and the driving school. Alongside them, an agenda of what’s on, and news of what has just changed.
It is not an official channel. I publish what someone who is here every day would tell a friend about.
Checked in person, and what that means
Every place on the site I have been to. For most, that means standing in front of it with a camera, reading the hours off the door and noting what is actually there.
Some I have been inside properly, and those carry a visited and verified badge on their page. I would rather draw that line than let you assume I have eaten everywhere.
How a place gets on the site
I add places I would send a friend to, and places people need whether or not they are charming. Nobody pays to be included, and nobody can pay to be left out. If somewhere is missing, tell me and I will go and look.
How I keep the opening hours right
This is the part most directories get wrong, so it is worth explaining.
Opening hours here are recorded as a structured week, not a paragraph of text. That is what lets the site tell you whether somewhere is open at this exact minute, what is open on a Sunday, and what stays open on a Luxembourg public holiday.
Where a place has given me its hours, I show them. Where I have not been able to confirm something, I say so rather than filling the gap with a guess. That is why some pages say plainly which details are not yet confirmed.
Hours change. If you find one wrong, tell me and I will fix it that week.
Independent
I Love Belval was founded and is written by me, Aswin Lutchanah. I have worked in Belval since 2015 and never quite stopped being amazed by it.
I live across the border in France, which makes me fairly typical of Belval: around 20,000 people arrive here each day, against roughly 4,300 who live here. This is a guide written by one of the people who turns up in the morning, for the people who turn up in the morning.
The site is not connected to my employer, or to any organisation described on these pages. There is no advertising, no sponsorship and no paid listings. The only measurement is a page counter on my own server: it adds up page views in aggregate, sets no cookie and identifies nobody, which is why you have not been asked to accept any cookies.
See something I missed? An event, an opening, a story worth telling? Get in touch. I Love Belval grows with the people who love this place.