14 Best Shopping in Luxembourg

The annual Braderie, a massive, citywide sidewalk sale, slashes prices on the last weekend in August or the first weekend in September.

C & A is the continent's answer to Macy's or Marks & Spencer—your basic department store, with added flair.

Centre Brasseur sells housewares, clothing, and specialty foods.

A local family-run chocolaterie that always delights. Chocolate pralines, truffles, spreads, mediants, and wooden spoons sunk Excaliber-like into elaborately decorated chunks of chocolate are all on show. 

Keep your eyes open for Emiaischen on Easter Monday behind the Ducal Palace, where you can buy Luxembourg's famous clay whistling birds.

At Christmastime, the Place d'Armes is host to a Holiday Market.

An antiques fair takes over the Place d'Armes every second and fourth Saturday.

Namur is a great patisserie with a successful sideline in knippercher, Luxembourg chocolates.

Oberweis is one of the city's finest patisseries.

In fine weather, this square's cafés and benches are full of both locals and visitors, while the bandstand hosts concerts on summer evenings. Best of all, in addition to a flea market being held on the first Sunday of the month (April–October), you'll also find a brocante (antiques) market filling its center every second and fourth Saturday. In winter, it is also home to a yearly Christmas market. 

This square is known locally as the Knuedler, a name derived from the knotted belts worn by the Franciscan monks who once had a monastery on this site. On market days (Wednesday and Saturday mornings), beneath the statue of Grand Duke Guillaume II, it fills with fruit and vegetable stands, flower vendors, cheese- and fishmongers, and a few farmers who bring in their personal crops as well as homemade jam, sauerkraut, and goat's cheese. Before you leave, take a moment to soak in the lavish 19th-century Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall), its stairs flanked by two magnificent bronze lions. 

Villeroy & Boch porcelain and glassware had been manufactured in Luxembourg since 1767 until production transferred to China in 2010. Yet locals still flock here for its housewares. In the center of town you'll find its flagship shop on rue du Fossé, though bargain hunters will prefer to head for the city outskirts where the factory outlet in Limpertsberg promises discounts on older lines and slightly flawed "seconds" at bargain prices. 

Hip boutique with a focus on slogan V-necks, cashmere sweaters, and bouclé-style scarves. It also has an atelier shop south of the station on rue Michel Welter.