Visit Leuven - 6 Things to Do in Leuven, Belgium
What to See & Do in Leuven, Belgium. The University city of Leuven some fun places to visit if you are heading by. The centerpiece is the Town Hall. Also worth visiting are... The Oude Markt for the highest number of bars on one square in Europe, a tour of the Stella Artois Brewery, The M Museum, Hanging out around the university area and more.
Filmed in Leuven, Belgium
Copyright Mark Wolters 2014
Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Louvain-la-Neuve (pop. 30,000), 30km south of Brussels, is an almost exclusively student town. The town was only founded in 1972, after the split of the University of Leuven (Louvain in French) between the Dutch and French speakers in 1968, thus creating the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Louvain-la-Neuve is not only th newest town in Belgium, but also a quite particular one, as half of its population are currently attending its university, while the other half is made mostly of former students, making it also the youngest town in the country.
The novelty of the town means that there is of course no historical buildings, but Louvain-la-Neuve make it up by its architectural harmony, pure air (the town is mostly pedestrian) and its spaciousness. It was designed around a lake and the modern layout of its streets certainly contrast with that of other Belgian cities.
In other words, Louvain-la-Neuve is more like a very big village where people greet each others at almost every corner, and parties presides over the life of its inhabitants.
The only touristic site is Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, although the whole city is an attraction in itself.
Source:
Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
13. Cartoon Culture
Belgium has a consuming passion for comic strips, which are considered the 'Ninth Art'. Foreigners might know the boy-reporter Tintin whose creater, Hergé, is celebrated at a fine new museum in Louvain La neuve.
12. Art nouveau
Swirls, curlicues and architectural daring: don't leave Brussels without exploring some of its art nouveau marvels. The style was developed with the help of the architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde.
11. Flanders Fields
Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders. The name Flanders Fields is particularly associated with battles that took place in the Ypres Salient, including the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Passchendaele.
10. Belfries & Begijnhoven
The Belfries of Belgium is a group of historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence in historic Flanders and neighbouring regions from feudal and religious influences, leading to a degree of local democracy of great significance in the history of humankind.
9. Chocolate
Belgium is famed for its high quality chocolate and over 2,000 chocolatiers, both small and large. Belgium's association with chocolate goes back as far as 1635 when the country was under Spanish occupation. From the early 20th century, the country was able to import large quantities of cocoa from its African colony, the Belgian Congo.
8. Castles
From French-style chateaux to Crusader-era ruins, Belgium is overloaded with spectacular castles. Antwerp and Ghent both retain medieval ones right in their city centres. And Namur, like Huy and Dinant, is dominated by a massive fortress citadel that retained military importance well into the 20th century.
7. Antwerp Art & Fashion
Go-ahead Antwerp is a city that has everything. its skyline is still dominated by one of the lowlands' most magnificent stone steeples and its medieval house-museums are stuffed with works by its most famous 17th-century resident, Pieter Paul rubens. But it's a dynamic place with state-of-the-art museums, vibrant nightlife and a reputation as one of europe's capitals of haute couture.
6. Art Cities
If you love the medieval charm of Bruges but want to be a little more original, a great choice is Gghent. this historic city also has its share of canalside splendour, a great arts scene and a grittier charm that many visitors find refreshing. Or try Mechelen. it's overloaded with splendid churches and the grand central square is graced with a fanciful town-hall complex that's only topped for sheer flamboyance by the statue-festooned equivalent in Leuven, Belgium'''s ancient university city.
5. Carnival Capers
If your neighbours' idea of a good time is to dress up in barrel costumes jingling with little bells, don spooky masks and ostrich feather hats, and then go throwing oranges at passers-by, you might wonder about their sanity. then again you might just be living in Binche. That's the town whose unique mardi gras carnival has long been so indulgent it gave the english language the term 'binge'.
4. Belgian Beer
For a comparatively small country, Belgium produces a very large number of beers in a range of different styles -- in fact, it has more distinct types of beer per capita than anywhere else in the world. In 2011, there were 1,132 different varieties of beer being produced in the country.
3. Flemish Primitives
The whole of western representational art was transformed in the 15th century by a group of Bruges-based painters whose mastery of oil paints allowed them to simulate reality and paint faces that expressed apparently real emotions. Simultaneously, the burgeoning economy of Flanders meant that rich sponsors were prepared to commission secular works.
2. Brussels' Grand Place
The Grand Place is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 361 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1. Bruges
Bruges is a picture-postcard-perfect city in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Relatively cosmopolitan and bourgeois given its compact size, it is one of the best preserved pre-motorised cities in Europe and offers the kind of charms rarely available other than in Europe.
SUBSCRIBE
CONNECT
Website:
Google+:
Twitter:
Pinterest:
Instagram:
Tumblr:
Facebook:
YouTube:
BRUSSELS Top 50 Tourist Places | Brussels Tourism | BELGIUM
Brussels (Things to do - Places to Visit) - BRUSSELS Top Tourist Places
capital of Belgium
Brussels is Belgium’s capital and home to the European Union headquarters. The Grand-Place square at the heart of the city has shops and cafes inside ornate 17th-century guild houses and the intricate Gothic Hôtel de Ville (town hall) with a distinctive bell tower.
The 19th-century Maison du Roi houses the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles city-history museum, including costumes for the city’s famed Manneken Pis Statue.
BRUSSELS Top 50 Tourist Places | Brussels Tourism
Things to do in BRUSSELS - Places to Visit in Brussels
Follow us on Twitter
For Top Tourist Places, Videos Subscribe us on Youtube
Follow us on Facebook
BRUSSELS Top 50 Tourist Places - Brussels, Belgium, Europe
Leuven, Belgium
Vignettes of Leuven. Here's a quick look around this Belgian city. Thanks to Peter Marchese for the instrumental score.
Other videos of Belgium in this series include Dinant, Ghent, Bruges, Mechelen, and Antwerp. Here are the links...
Dinant -
Ghent -
Bruges -
Mechelen -
Antwerp -
Visit Leuven - 5 Things You Will Love & Hate about Leuven, Belgium
The Best & Worst of Leuven, Belgium. From crazy bike riders and 6pm shop closings to the student vibe and Oude Markt beer experience there is a lot to love and not like about Leuven, Belgium
Filmed in Leuven, Belgium
Copyright Mark Wolters 2014
Louvain Leuven Université
Photos & Montage Guy Bastin 2011
Citytrip Leuven
In anderhalve minuut neem ik je mee door de Belgische studentenstad Leuven. Je ziet de historische binnenstad met het stadhuis en de universiteitsbibliotheek, maar ook de Kruidtuin en M van Museum.
Muziek: Royalty Free Music: Wouter Siteur –
Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve : EDEN award winner 2013 in Belgium
Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve : EDEN award winner 2013 in Belgium
My Trip to The Comic Museum of Brussels
Hannah went to the Comic Museum of Brussels as research for her personal project and it was amazing! She left out some of the more Smurf-y stuff, but it you want to see that part of the museum you can find pictures on their website.
Thanks for watching!
Music:
TITLE: Pacific Sun
ARTIST: NICOLAI HEIDLAS
---------------------------------------------------
CC BY License 4.0
We're four fangirls, Brianna, Hannah, Ishani, and Izzy, who decided to share our fargirliness with the world.
********************************************************************
Our Instagram:
Our Twitter:
Our Comedy and Music Channel: