Belgium
Things to do in Leuven
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Sightlore has 22 places to explore in Leuven, and 9 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Leuven's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Great Beguinage of Leuven
The Great Beguinage of Leuven is a well-preserved beguinage and completely restored historical quarter containing a dozen streets in the south of downtown Leuven, Belgium.
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St. Peter's Church, Leuven
Saint Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Leuven, Belgium, built in the 15th century in the Brabantine Gothic style. The church has a cruciform floor plan and a low bell tower that has never been completed.
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Leuven Town Hall
The Town Hall of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, is a landmark building on that city's Grote Markt (main square), across from the monumental St. Peter's Church.
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Volmolen
Former water-driven fulling mill where the Dijle enters Leuven, built on the Grote Spui sluice complex, one of the two water gates of the 14th-century city wall.
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Old Market of Leuven
The Oude Markt (Dutch for "Old Market") is a rectangular square in the centre of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, that largely consists of catering establishments. This is why it is nicknamed the "longest bar in the world".
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Sint-Donatus Park
The Sint-Donatus Park is a public urban park in the historic centre of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The park combines a landscape garden dating from the 19th century with surviving remnants of Leuven's medieval fortification.
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M Leuven
M Leuven or simply M is an art museum in the inner city of Leuven, Belgium, which was officially opened in 2009. The museum has a collection of some 46,000 works, which range from late-Gothic paintings and sculptures to 16th century local artists such as Jan Rombouts the…
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Arenberg Castle
The Château of Arenberg or Arenberg Castle is a Flemish Renaissance style château in Heverlee, close to Leuven, Belgium. It is surrounded by a park.
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Saint-Michaels' church
Baroque church on the Naamsestraat in Leuven, protected since 1940; regarded as the most important Jesuit church in Belgium.
Discovery routes in Leuven
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Leuven: from the Oude Markt to Arenberg
From the Oude Markt to the Town Hall and St. Peter's Church, M Leuven and Sint-Donatuspark, St. Michael's Church, the Great Beguinage, the Grote Spui and Arenberg Castle.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Old Market of Leuven
The Oude Markt (Dutch for "Old Market") is a rectangular square in the centre of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, that largely consists of catering establishments. This is why it is nicknamed the "longest bar in the world".
Leuven Town Hall
The Town Hall of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, is a landmark building on that city's Grote Markt (main square), across from the monumental St. Peter's Church.
Volmolen
Former water-driven fulling mill where the Dijle enters Leuven, built on the Grote Spui sluice complex, one of the two water gates of the 14th-century city wall.
Arenberg Castle
The Château of Arenberg or Arenberg Castle is a Flemish Renaissance style château in Heverlee, close to Leuven, Belgium. It is surrounded by a park.
Brussels Gate
Former city gate of Leuven on the Brusselsestraat, part of the city's outer wall.
Heverlee War Cemetery
Heverlee War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the Second World War located in Heverlee, Belgium.
Museums
M Leuven
M Leuven or simply M is an art museum in the inner city of Leuven, Belgium, which was officially opened in 2009. The museum has a collection of some 46,000 works, which range from late-Gothic paintings and sculptures to 16th century local artists such as Jan Rombouts the…
Places of worship
St. Peter's Church, Leuven
Saint Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Leuven, Belgium, built in the 15th century in the Brabantine Gothic style. The church has a cruciform floor plan and a low bell tower that has never been completed.
Saint-Michaels' church
Baroque church on the Naamsestraat in Leuven, protected since 1940; regarded as the most important Jesuit church in Belgium.
Great Beguinage of Leuven
The Great Beguinage of Leuven is a well-preserved beguinage and completely restored historical quarter containing a dozen streets in the south of downtown Leuven, Belgium.
Sint-Kwintenskerk
Saint Quentin's Church is a Roman Catholic church located at the Naamsestraat in Leuven, Belgium. Its exterior is mainly Gothic with a Baroque entrance portal. The interior contains Baroque choir stalls and altars.
Saint Jacob's Church
Church in Leuven built in 1220–1235 in Romanesque style, combining Romanesque, Gothic and Neoclassical elements; only the tower survives from the original building.
St. Gertrude's Abbey
St Gertrude's Abbey is a complex of former monastic buildings in Leuven, Belgium.
Celestine Convent of Heverlee
Priory in Heverlee, Leuven, the only Celestine monastery in the Low Countries; since 2019 a KU Leuven campus library.
Monastery of Zwartzusters (Leuven)
Convent in Leuven held for centuries by the Black Sisters of St. Augustine, who cared for the sick.
Abdij Keizersberg
Keizersberg Abbey, in Dutch the Abdij Keizersberg, is a former Benedictine monastery on the Keizersberg hill situated in the north of the Flemish town Leuven in Belgium.
Carthusians (Leuven)
Former Carthusian monastery in Leuven; the only one of the twenty charterhouses of the Low Countries that has survived.
Park Abbey
Park Abbey or Parc Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey at Heverlee, outside Leuven, in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The Annales Parchenses were written here in the 12th century.
Vlierbeek Abbey
Vlierbeek Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey to the north-east of Leuven in Belgium, in the sub-district Kessel-Lo.
Nature
Sint-Donatus Park
The Sint-Donatus Park is a public urban park in the historic centre of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The park combines a landscape garden dating from the 19th century with surviving remnants of Leuven's medieval fortification.
Dijlepark
Urban park in Leuven.
Hortus Botanicus Lovaniensis
The Hortus Botanicus Lovaniensis is a botanical garden in Leuven, Belgium, dating from 1738. It is situated in the city centre and has an extent of 2.2 hectares.
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