Braderie
The annual Braderie, a massive, citywide sidewalk sale, slashes prices on the last weekend in August or the first weekend in September.
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Luxembourg’s citizens are for the most part unsentimental about the traditional blue-and-gray crockery and burnished pewter that once furnished every home; nowadays, they prefer their local Villeroy & Boch vitro-porcelain in jazzy, modern designs. Although no longer manufactured in Luxembourg, all three types can be found in most home-furnishings and gift shops. For souvenirs, there are lovely photography books of Luxembourg's historic sites, as well as reproduced engravings of the city in all its fortified glory. Because Luxembourg City is home to a large population of bankers and well-paid Eurocrats, as well as its own newly wealthy, it has an unusually high number of luxury and designer shops for such a city its size. Clerks, however, are not always overwhelmingly friendly.
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.
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.