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Planned city in Wallonia, Belgium
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Louvain-la-Neuve is a modern town in the province of Walloon Brabant in the French-speaking part of Belgium. It was created in 1969 in order to host the French-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Louvain, which had just seceded from the Dutch-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Leuven, and had to move from Flanders to Wallonia. It has about 20,000 inhabitants, with approximately the same number of students attending the university and colleges in town. Be careful not to confuse between Leuven which is a town in Flanders, and is also spelled Louvain in French, and Louvain-la-Neuve. You can also find the abbreviation LLN.
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Musée universitaire de Louvain
Opened in 2017, it is the biggest university museum in Belgium. The museum presents classic, modern and contemporary artworks (including Dürer, Picasso, Van Dyck, Goya, and Rodin) and scientific objects (specimens of natural history, archaeological and ethnographic objects or scientific inventions) among a collection of 32.000 pieces and is situated at the place des sciences, upper town, inside the former Bibliothèque des Sciences (Science library) and presents an interesting concrete architectural style.
The main auditorium in the city, good panorama on the lake. It also serves as theatre.
Tour
Nearby the Place des Wallons, the Tower is the only building in Louvain-la-Neuve with more than 5 storeys
Musée Hergé
Offers an innovative architecture to host the official Belgian comics writer's legacy.
By train
Louvain-la-Neuve is connected in about 7 minutes to the station of Ottignies which is on the important Brussels-Luxembourg line.
By bus
Local buses (TEC company) link Louvain-la-Neuve to the main neighbouring towns. A special bus connects LLN to the other university Campus in the Brussels' district of Woluwe.
Louvain-la-Neuve was designed as a pedestrian city, and so it is. You won't have to walk more than 20 min in order to get to any place in the city. Moreover, there are lots of covered paths in the center in case of rain.
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