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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Born in Charleroi on July 17, 1894, Georges Lemaître was an astronomer, cosmologist and professor at the KU Leuven university. He died in Leuven on June 20, 1966. Georges Lemaître proposed what we know today...
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 story of the Benedictine monks of Vilerbeek begins as long as 1125. The area of abbey is still the focal point of parish and a wonderful destination for walkers and cyclist.For nine centuries, the...