Luxembourg Light Festival: An audiovisual journey through the capital

The third edition of the Luxembourg Light Festival, which took place the weekend of 15-17 December, made for an alternative experience of Luxembourg City.

Visitors were taken on a dazzling audio-visual journey through the capital with light installations by national and international artists.

The tour began at Place Guillaume, where lights were projected onto the City Hall to the sound of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', momentarily transforming Knuedler's Ice Rink into a '70s disco.

Various artists' works were displayed in a 30-minute loop, from dancing lights to jellyfish pulsating through water.

At Place de Clairefontaine, visitors were met with an impressive art installation around the monument of the Grand-Duchess Charlotte.

White balloons, seemingly floating about in the wind, rhythmically lit up to the beat of electronic music.

Despite the rain, it was a tough decision to carry on with the tour, the trippy, immersive light display creating a fascinatingly organised chaos.

The next part of the journey took visitors down the Rue de St Esprit, where they literally walked through the installation.

Thick, colourful fog and flickering lights made it hard to see what was in front you, and, just for a moment, it almost felt like being in a mythical parallel world.

At the National Archives and the Corniche, visitors could record videos of themselves in a photo-booth as part of an interactive installation.

Their faces were then projected onto the walls of the Grund, the stones making visitors look like collections of colourful pixels.

On the walk along the Corniche, there were stunning views of the city by night. Green and blue laser beams further lit up the city, covering the Grund with a hovering cloud of colour.

The last station of the Light Festival was also one of its most impressive.

What at first seemed like tiles being projected onto the National Museum of History and Art slowly began to break away and seamlessly transition into still portraits of contemporary dancers.

A mesmerising dance scene then unfolded as the dancers merged with the background, the music and also each other.

The Luxembourg Light Festival – illuminating the city on a grey and rainy day and aligning the old of historical Luxembourg with the new – was well worth the visit and is something to look out for next winter.