Theatre, music, literature, cinema, gastronomy, and the multilingual cultural life that runs through the Philharmonie, Mudam, Rotondes, and the Grand Duchy's village halls.
The Cinémathèque's redesigned permanent exhibition treats a century of Luxembourgish film as serious cultural history rather than nostalgic curiosity.
Eighty-six years to the day after the Wehrmacht entered Luxembourg, Dudelange resident Aloyse Schartz, 93, who was six in 1940, recalls the morning his father came home early from the steelworks night shift to announce the German invasion: 'D'Preise sinn do.'
On Sunday 10 May 2026 thousands of pilgrims and onlookers walked Luxembourg City's Upper Town for the closing procession of the Octave, the four-century-old Marian pilgrimage now inscribed in Luxembourg's intangible cultural heritage. The 2026 edition was placed under the theme of the human person.
The 79th Cannes Film Festival runs from 12 to 23 May 2026 with 21 (later 22) films in competition. Honorary Palmes d'Or go to Peter Jackson and Barbra Streisand; the festival opens with Pierre Salvadori's 'The Electric Kiss.'
From Europe's oldest funfair to a night marathon, a Pride run and an international space-resources summit, Luxembourg's 2026 events calendar is unusually full for a country its size.
Luxembourg has three official languages — Luxembourgish, French and German — and English is widely spoken. Here is where each one is actually used, and what visitors and new arrivals need to know.
Reliance-Disney's $20M offer for Indian rights was rejected as unacceptable; no deal is yet in place for China — leaving roughly 2.8 billion people potentially without legal access to the 2026 World Cup.
A rare twin birth in eastern DRC's Virunga National Park is a small piece of unequivocally good conservation news for a species whose population has crept back from the brink across the past three decades.
On Whit Tuesday, 26 May 2026, the medieval town of Echternach hosts the Hopping Procession of Saint Willibrord, the only annual dancing pilgrimage on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
On 3 June 2026, the Red Lions face Italy in a high-profile international friendly at the Stade de Luxembourg — the most visible early test of head coach Jeff Strasser's project.
Etzella Ettelbruck and Sparta Bertrange entered the men's Total League final after a tightly compressed top of the table; on the women's side, T71 and Contern booked the Enovos League final.
On 30 April 2026, the international jury of the Venice Biennale resigned amid tensions over Russia's continued participation and the panel's decision to bar prizes for countries accused of crimes against humanity.
Luxembourg's most important religious festival — the Octave of Our Lady — runs across two consecutive weeks each spring, culminating in a procession of the 70-cm statue of the Virgin through the streets of the capital.
From the 2026/27 season, Hungarian conductor Martin Rajna takes over as Chief Conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. The current 2025/26 season marks Kurtág's centenary and features Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong as Artists in focus.
Luxembourg's flagship men's cycling stage race returns from 16 to 20 September 2026 with five stages running from Remich to a final-day finish on the Knuedler in the capital.
Luxembourg's biggest international music festival returns to the Parc du Gaalgebierg in Esch-sur-Alzette under the theme RISE A NEW WORLD, with Macklemore opening on 12 June.
The first 48-team World Cup, hosted across the US, Canada and Mexico, runs 11 June to 19 July 2026. Mexico opens the tournament; Canada and the US play their opening matches the following day.
From May to October 2026, Mudam marks two decades by sending twelve works from its collection on tour, hosted in each of Luxembourg's twelve cantons by local museums, town halls, libraries and cultural centres.
On 13 March 2026, Bascharage's Brasserie Nationale launched Battin Sans Alcool, an alcohol-free version of its Battin Gambrinus lager — Luxembourg's biggest brewery joining the no-and-low movement.
Alpine skier Matthieu Osch was the country's flagbearer at the 2026 Winter Olympics, finishing 28th in the slalom. Twenty-year-old Gwyneth ten Raa achieved her best result with 30th place in the giant slalom.
20-year-old Eva Marija Kavaš Puc won the Luxembourg Song Contest at Rockhal on 24 January 2026 with 'Mother Nature' — the country's first ever Eurovision entry performed entirely in English.
The Michelin Guide Belgium and Luxembourg 2026 awards Le Lys (Kim De Dood) its first star, while Ma Langue Sourit and Léa Linster keep their two stars and the Grand Duchy stays a top per-capita gastronomy destination.
Tuesday 23 June 2026 will be the first National Day celebration since the October 2025 abdication of Grand Duke Henri. Festivities open the night before with the torchlight Fakelzuch and OneRepublic on the Glacis.