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. In this church, you can visit the tomb of the famous scholar Leonardus Lessius (Lenaert Leys).

Next to it, you will find the Premonstratensian college where professor Georges Lemaître, 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.

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.