Your first week in Belval
Six places, in the order you will actually need them.
Everything here was checked on 4 September, 2026.
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Your first week in Belval
Six places, in the order you will actually need them. A shop before a nice dinner.
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1 · The everyday shop
Start with the boring one
You will want bread before you want a view. Delhaize sits inside Belval Plaza, so the weekly shop can share a trip with the post office and the chemist.
It reopened on 27 August after a three week refit, which is why it looks newer than everything around it.
- Sunday
- 7:30–19:00, which is unusual here
- Weekdays
- 7:30–20:00, and 7:00–21:00 on Friday
- Where
- 14 Avenue du Rock'n'Roll, inside the Plaza
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2 · Somewhere to sit
Parc um Belval
The answer to “is there anywhere to just be outside”. A playground, a Teqball table, and nine holes of disc golf that are free to play if you bring your own discs.
Under the grass is the old Source Bel-Val, whose mineral water was bottled and sent abroad long before the steelworks took the name.
- Open
- 24 hours, every day, holidays included
- Where
- 2 passage Pablo Picasso, Belvaux
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3 · The one you will photograph
Climb the thing that built the place
The university was built around the furnaces rather than beside them, and the way to understand that is to go up one. The route starts in the Möllerei and follows the path the ore once took.
There is a lift for part of the climb. Check before you set out on a windy day.
- Closed
- Tuesdays. 10:00–19:00 every other day
- Cost
- €
- Coming up
- Guided tour, Sunday 20 September, 14:30
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4 · Coffee off campus
Café Saga
Every campus needs somewhere that is not the campus. Saga is in the old steelworks fabric between the Rockhal and the Maison du Savoir, with a terrace, a short lunch menu and quiz nights.
Learn its weekend before you walk over. It is the one that catches people out.
- Closed
- Saturday and Sunday
- Monday
- 12:00–14:00 only
- This Tuesday
- Quiz night, 8 September, 18:30
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5 · Getting about
You do not need a car
Second class public transport is free for journeys inside Luxembourg, including the train that brought you here. That covers most of what a first week asks of you.
For the rest there is the Haus vum Vëlo beside the station: a community workshop with the tools out, second-hand bikes, cargo bikes to try, and volunteers who will teach you to fix your own.
- Open
- 16:00–20:00 Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri
- Saturday
- 14:00–18:00. Closed Thursday and Sunday
- Students
- There is a discount, so ask
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6 · Everything else
Belval Plaza
Chemist, optician, post office, phone shop, cinema. The place you end up when something has gone wrong and you need it fixed today.
It shuts on Sundays like almost everything else, with one exception this weekend.
- This Sunday
- 6 September, 10:00–18:00, for the braderie
- Normally
- Mon–Fri 10:00–20:00, Sat 9:00–19:00, Sun closed
- Parking
- One hour free, two once you have bought something
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Before you are caught out
Three things nobody warns you about
The rest of your first week, in the order it usually goes wrong.
- Sunday
- Luxembourg closes properly. Check which places do not before you set off.
- Transport
- Free in second class anywhere in the country. First class and the far side of a border crossing still need a ticket.
- August
- Half of Belval shuts for two or three weeks and rarely announces it far in advance.
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