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Musée Hergé
Christian de Portzamparc's angular white museum in Louvain-la-Neuve devoted to Tintin's creator, holding original plates, sketches and the world's largest Hergé collection across eight themed galleries.
0 km · about 5 min drive
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve works well as a base: 5 minutes from Mont-Saint-Guibert, 25km from Hallerbos.
Louvain-la-Neuve is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 30,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Mont-Saint-Guibert, about 4 km away.
Louvain-la-Neuve (French: [luvɛ̃ la nœv] ; French for "New Leuven"; Walloon: Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was built to house the Université catholique de LouvainRead more
(UCLouvain) which owns the entire territory of the town; following the linguistic quarrels that took place in Belgium during the 1960s, and Flemish claims of discrimination at the Catholic University of Leuven, the institution was split into the Dutch-language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), which remained in Leuven, and the Université catholique de Louvain.
To a great extent, it still lives following the rhythms of the university that is its raison d'être. However, with the construction of L'Esplanade shopping complex, the Aula Magna exhibition centre and auditorium, a large cinema complex, and five museums, it is beginning to grow beyond its academic roots.
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What is there to see near Louvain-la-Neuve?
Within an hour or so of Louvain-la-Neuve: Musée Hergé (0 km), Villers Abbey (11 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (15 km), Nivelles-Baulers (21 km).
Are there any good drives near Louvain-la-Neuve?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Louvain-la-Neuve?
Louvain-la-Neuve is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Mont-Saint-Guibert.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 29,521
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.6683, 4.6144
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Worth the detour from Louvain-la-Neuve
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
11 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Lion's Mound Waterloo
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
15 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
Nivelles-Baulers
A flat, fast circuit that hosted two Belgian Grands Prix in the 1970s before closing in 1981. Much of the abandoned track survives among industrial development, its wide sweeping curves clearly readable from ground level.
21 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Villa Empain
Baron Empain's 1934 marble-and-gilt Art Deco mansion on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, restored by the Boghossian Foundation as an East-West art centre: Brussels' most sumptuous interior after the Horta houses.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Leuven Town Hall
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
24 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
25 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
25 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near Louvain-la-Neuve
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 72 kmChimay Street CircuitA Belgian village street circuit running since 1926, still used for historic car and motorcycle racing on closed public roads. Between meetings you can drive the whole flat-out 4km lap through farmland and the town outskirts.
Driving in Belgium
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.74/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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