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From May to October 2025, Luxembourg will host the National Exhibition of Urban Gardens, Landscapes, Agriculture and Living Spaces. But a pre-programme of the event starts this Sunday, June 4!
The Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) is a national event that offers the general public, nature lovers and professionals alike the opportunity to recharge their batteries, be inspired, exchange know-how and learn from nature.
Rendezvous in the garden
It’s only natural that 4 June has been chosen, along with the European “Rendez-vous in the Gardens” event, this year on the theme of “Gardens and Music”, to launch the preliminary activities for this exhibition, “Sowing in 2023, Harvesting in 2025”.
Come to the Parc municipal Édouard-André de Luxembourg this Sunday, 4 June, from 10 am to 6 pm. Throughout the day, in the heart of the rose garden, you will be able to taste local products made from roses, thanks to the associations Lëtzebuerger Rousefrënn and Patrimoine roses pour le Luxembourg.
Conferences and recitals
To round off the day’s cultural discoveries, you can attend two conferences: one at 11 am on the life of Princess Amalie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, given by Jean-Jacques Kasel, a member of the Association of Friends of the Rose. At 2.30 pm, you can learn more about the history of the rose from Nicole Trossen, member of the Patrimoine roses for Luxembourg.
At 15.30 and 16.30 there will be two piano recitals. The first will be performed by the sisters Anastassia and Anna Touliankina and the second by musicians from the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.
For fans of the black and white keys, there will also be two self-service pianos in the park as part of the My Urban Piano festival.
Making the invisible visible
“Sowing in 2023, Reaping in 2025” offers a series of one-off events and ongoing projects to spread the message and values of LUGA in the run-up to the main exhibition. For this year’s event, the LUGA theme is: “Making the Invisible Visible”. This will be an opportunity to highlight the environment, agriculture, food, culture, well-being, sustainable development, the circular economy, technological innovation, tourism, etc.
As part of this future exhibition, (international) calls for projects will be launched in June for the creation of around twenty urban gardens and ephemeral landscape installations. The ten gardens along the Alzette valley will be open to professional landscape architects, gardeners, designers and visual artists. As for the ten gardens in the Pétrusse valley, they will be open to “start-ups” with a visionary and innovative approach.
