| VISITING LEUVEN |
 Leuven is a small and beautifull city near Brussels. On this page, you'll find more information about the city, the road to Leuven, transportation and a series of pictures.
You can download the official tourist guide from the city of Leuven here
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| ABOUT LEUVEN |
Leuven is a relatively small city (100.000 inhabitants), 20 kilometers near Brussels. Leuven is widely known for two things: it harbours one of the oldest universities in Europe. The K.U.Leuven was founded in 1425 and has more than 25.000 students today.
Leuven is also the hometown of INBEV, the largest brewery in the world, famous for it's beer Stella Artois (since 1366), one of the best known (and may we add: best tasting) beers.
Leuven itself was founded in the 11th century and has a fabelous historic city centre (with the magnificent town hall) and a worldwide known Beguinage (officially recognized as an UNESCO World Heritage site). Due to the creative input of students, it always stayed a vivid, young and creative environment. In a city where the historical buildings are only surpassed by the number of pubs and bars (following our last count:180, but it's possible we've missed some) there is always something going on.
The festival organizes free guided tours of the historical spots, so be sure to join us.
Leuven harbours a series of interesting cultural organisations and events. Besides the DOCVILLE there's also the International Arts Centre STUK (www.stuk.be), the programmation of the local cultural center 30CC (www.30CC.be), the huge city rock festival "Marktrock" (www.marktrock.be), The Afrika Film Festival (www.afrikafilmfestival.be), the cultural festival Kulturama (www.kulturama.be), the club concerts of Het Depot (www.depot.be), the International Documentary Film Festival DOCVILLE (www.docville.be) and so on.
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| GUEST CARE |
For film professionals only. Please contact our guest coördinator: Frank Moens ( +32/16/320.310 )
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| THE ROAD TO LEUVEN |
By plane
Leuven is a 20 minute drive from the Brussels National Airport (40 minutes by train). The lowcost airline company, Ryainair, flies to Charleroi from 10 different cities. If you inform us about your flight and arrival/departure time, we make the necessary arrangements to pick you up at the airport.
By train
In Brussels South trains arrive from ever corner of Europe .
If you are coming from London , Lille or Paris you can take the Eurostar. If you are coming from France , Germany or the Netherlands , you could take a train of the Thalys network. For international timetables, click here or inform with our guest coordinator.
By car
Leuven is situated close to the A3 (in Belgium called E40) highway between Brussels and Liège (Luik). Comming from the north; follow the A2 (in Belgium called the E314) between Leuven and Genk. |
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