Italy
Italian community
The Italian community in Luxembourg is one of the most strongly represented communities with 21,962 citizens in 2018. Many associations, cultural spaces or meeting places are available to nationals and other communities. The Italian community is one of the 3 fastest growing communities in Luxembourg.
It is following the industrialization and construction of steel mills in Luxembourg to process iron ore in 1892, that the italian communiy has been growing in Luxembourg. Barely 1.2% of the population in 1875, they represented 25.5 % in 1925 and 3.6% in 2018. It is the 3rd largest foreign community in Luxembourg and more and more Italians come to settle in the Grand Duchy. They are now well anchored via several associations. 30% of them are based in Luxembourg-City and 7% in Bertrange.
Ferrero is one of Luxembourg’s iconic companies with more than 900 employees. It is located in Findel.
On comites.lu , you will find a lot of information in Italian about Luxembourg.
Traditional and recurrent italian events in Luxembourg
- Festival of Italian cinema of Villerupt
- International bazar where you can find italian products such as clothing, leather goods, jewellery, and of course italian food like pizza, pastas, wines and homemade limoncello! Plus a tombola !
- The Italian National Day takes place on June 2nd.
