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Real name Émile Albert Kayenberg, Albert Giraud was born on June 23, 1860, in Leuven, into a family of merchants. He studied law at the University of Leuven. He left university without a degree and...

Throughout his 1895 standard work “Louvain dans le passe et dans le present” Edward Van Even tells of seven ancient wonders of Leuven. It is a romantic 19. Century idea which, just like the idea...

The Romanesque gate from 1218-1222 is the only remnant of the Sint-Elisabethgasthuis, which was founded here around 1080-1090 under Henry III, Count of Leuven. After a fire in 1363 and a major reorganization at the...

The memory of those who fell in the battle for universal suffrage (18 April 1902 – 18 April 2002). The drawings are made by marble and copper – 6 by 6 meters, 81 square tiles...

The park was laid out in the English landscape style between 1869 and 1875 and was re-landscaped between 1993 and 1998. The park covers an area of approximately 2.4 hectares. The park is the most...

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...