There is a Zoology Museum with Whale Skeleton (Museum Voor Dierkunde)in the Charles Debériotstraat, right next to the city park in Leuven! Numerous animals stare at you in the glass cabinets. The bowhead whale hangs...
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University Hall (Universiteitshal) in Leuven is a medieval cloth hall with 17th and 18th-century extensions that is now the main administrative building of KU Leuven.Fourteenth-century Leuven was internationally known for its cloth industry. In 1317,...
The barouque chapel Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Koorts in was built 1641-1733. It then functioned as a parish church (1803-1871) and as a monastery of the Friars Minor (1871-1986). Since 1986 it is part of the KADOC site, owned...
The Keizersberg Abbey (Abdij van Keizersberg) is located in the north of the Leuven. This 19th-century Benedictine abbey was built by monks from Maredsous Abbey. A long wall encloses the building and surrounding grounds so that...
The St. Anthony’s Chapel (Sint Antoniuskapel) is one of several medieval chapel in Leuven. In the 19. centaury it was an important place of pilgrimage dedicated to St. Joseph. Since 1936 its crypt has contained...
St. Quentin Church (Sint-Kwintenskerk) is a gothic church, situated on a hill close the Namur Gate is one of the medieval parish churches of Leuven. People prayed here to St. Quentin for cures for a number...
The Abbey of Vlierbeek was founded in 1125 when Duke Godfrey the Bearded of Lorraine donated land to the abbey of Affligem. Vlierbeek was the first monastery in the vicinity of Leuven. Originally a Benedictine...
The Saint James' Church (Sint-Jacobskerk) is built in Romanesque style between 1220 and 1235 (13th century). Since 1290, only the tower remains of this original church, which is part of the seven wonders of Leuven....