Esch-sur-Alzette, Porte des Sciences

This summer, you can get a preview of what future mobility between the Unicampus in Belval and Luxembourg City might look like: Not by car, but by two wheels and pedals, the VéloExpress Belval-Luxembourg takes you 27 kilometers to your destination. It starts at the station in Belval and ends at the Glacis parking lot in the capital. Experience the contrast between the modern science city where you start and the nature reserves along the route, which lead you through former open-pit mining areas where nature is reclaiming its space.

The Minett Trail is a 90-kilometer-long hiking route that runs across the Minett region. In ten stages, you can experience smaller and larger towns as well as eight nature reserves. These impress with old forests and former open-pit mining areas. With steep rock faces, red soil, and mine entrances, they are unique in Luxembourg. This section, with an alternative starting point, is wheelchair accessible. You hike between the new Belval district, which has rapidly developed for almost ten years, and the town of Esch-sur-Alzette. There is much to discover along this route: the former industrial wasteland has been made habitable and buildable again with great efforts; since then, the district, officially part of Esch-sur-Alzette, has been filled with new life. Whether cultural center (with the "Rockhal"), research or studies and sciences (Belval is also the location of the very young University of Luxembourg), or recreation, the site is a prime example of successful revitalization.

Word game "hungry" between Beef & Bistro, this new establishment is the latest Beefbar franchise. Playing on contrasts, the menu offers the best cuts of meat in the world and a selection of street food revisited, unpretentious and with high quality products ... The play of transparencies with huge floor-to-ceiling windows merge with the industrial structures of Belval.

As you arrive in Belval, you can see, in the distance, a sunflower-yellow building whose undulating shape interacts with the curved topography of this former Luxembourg mining area. Its colour – called ‘construction-site-yellow’ pays homage to the working-class world. This quirky 400m2 building, designed by Luxembourg-based Polaris Architects, is now rented out for various meetings or events By the way, the name comes from the carts that in the past transported iron ore up an inclined lift for loading into the blast furnace.