The Small Beguinage (Klein Begijnhof ) of Leuven is a neighborhood consisting of two dead-end streets. This district was inhabited until the 19th century by beguines. There is no common history between Great Beguinage and these beguinages. Beguines...
The Landlady (De Kotmadam) is a statue, part of the Oude Markt in Leuven, made by Alfred Bellefroid on May 16, 1985. “Kot” is Flemish slang for a student room, and the “kotmadam” is the...
The Round Table (Het Tafelrond), from 1479, the building was a meeting place for different guilds in the city of Leuven. In 1818 the building was demolished and replaced by a neoclassical building desiged by...
Meester Jan - Sint Pieters Klokkenluider; The Leuven Jacquemart (mechanical statues striking bells) was called 'Meester Jan' and was constructed in 1381. In 1573 it finally came to grief under the influence of wind and weather,...
The Saint Peter's Church (Sint-Pieterskerk) in Leuven is a Roman Catholic church built in the 15th century in the Brabantine Gothic style. The first church on the site, made of wood and presumably founded in 986, burned...
Leuven gift featuring Old Town Hall The old town hall of Leuven (Stadhuis ), is one of the most famous gothic town halls in the world. The elegant towers of the town hall are the...
In 1816 King William I of the Netherlands opened national universities in Ghent, Liège and Leuven. In 1830, Belgium seceded from the Netherlands and became an independent kingdom. After the (re)founding of a Catholic University,...