Thursday 16 February 2017

Why my Home Town Leuven is Worth a Visit

This is a blog for globetrotters, colleagues from other countries and other planets. I just want to give you a few reasons to visit my home town Leuven. Leuven is around 25 kilometers east from Brussels. It is internationally well-known through its university to students and researchers, but as a touristic destination, it is still a little underrated. I’m not chauvinistic, only proud in the good sense. Let me know when you are coming.

The most convincing place of interest is probably our town hall, which I already compared with the Brussels town hall in a previous blog.


Next to it, the Saint Peter's church, built around the same time, has a marvellous interior and contains some treasures of art, like 'the last Supper' painting by Dirk Bouts.


Our Grand Beguinage is a favourite place to stay for professors and students.

One of my favourites is Saint Michael's church in the Naamsestraat, a rare perfect example of Jesuit baroque style.


Next to it, you will find the Premonstratensian college where professor Georges LemaƮtre, the 'creator-inventor' of the concept of the Big Bang, used to have his office.


The university library was already shown in a previous blog.


The university is a blessing for the town, as it created excellent hospitals and research centres. I also refer to Leuven Mindgate.

There are many more things to see in and around Leuven, and you will certainly see some of them in my future blogs, as I regularly use self-made pictures to illustrate my texts.