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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...