Open Day: Service Parcs

On Saturday, 24 May 2025, the City of Luxembourg's Service Parcs (Parks Department) will be hosting an open day at its site in Reckenthal. Throughout the day, there will be a range of activities and entertainment for visitors of all ages and interests.

Visitors can look forward to guided tours, hands-on workshops, fun activities and more.

Throughout the day, visitors will get a chance to find out more about the variety of tasks that the Service Parcs undertakes on a day-to-day basis, such as maintaining the city's green spaces, growing plants and flowers, creating flower arrangements, and more. Visitors will also be able to visit department's greenhouses and educational gardens, and participate in creative workshops.

• Guided tours (approx. 45 minutes):
• Greenhouses: 10:30, 13:30 and 15:30
• Educational garden: 11:00, 14:00 and 16:00

Hands-on workshops and demonstrations (running continuously throughout the day):

• Horticultural workshop: seed trays, transplanting seedlings, potting, including potting perennials
• Outdoor planter workshop: make your own summer plant box; demonstration on how to assemble large concrete planters
• Flower workshop: how to make flower boxes and baskets; how to make a bouquet; flower arrangement
• removing weeds
• potting plants

There will also be a number of stands at the event:

• tastings of honey made by the city's bees, and wine from the Bock vineyards
• tools and equipment used by the Service Parcs: shredders, trucks, power saws, tractors, etc.
• food and drink stands.

Other attractions include a "human kicker", a miniature sailboat game, a miniature train, an inflatable castle and tractor rides.

Practical information

When: 24 May 2025, from 10:00 to 17:00

Where: Service Parcs, 132, rue de Reckenthal, L-2410 Luxembourg

How to get there:

• shuttle service between P+R Stade and the Service Parcs site in Reckenthal: every 30 minutes, from 10:00 to 17:30
• AVL bus line 31: Howald, Luxembourg Central Station, city centre, Reckenthal, Strassen ("Oricher Hoehl"): every 60 minutes (bus.vdl.lu)
• visitor parking available at the site

Free admission; no registration required.