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Saint John the Baptist Church

Saint John the Baptist Church

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Saint John the Baptist Church

Recommended by 47 hikers out of 50

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Groot Begijnhof

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Location: Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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2. Leuven Town Hall – Saint Michael's Church loop from Janseniushof

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3. View of Park Abbey and Ponds – Park Abbey loop from Leuven

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Viviane

October 10, 2022

Just outside the city walls, in the Great Beguinage, a chapel in Romanesque style was built in 1305.
This typical church in local Leuven peasant Gothic is notable for its simple basilical floor plan without a transept and with a flat choir end.
The church still shows some Romanesque features such as the heavy buttresses, small upper windows and a stair turret.

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August 24, 2024

Despite its so-called austerity, the Gothic St. John the Baptist Church from 1232 is a gem for me for personal and historical reasons. But there is also a lot to discover, both around the church and inside. What do you think of frescoes from the fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries that were found during renovation work? Or the gravestones of literally dozens of beguines and employees of the "court" in the church? And then there are church works but also modern works of art. For example, you will find at least a remarkable Stations of the Cross by sculptor Hilde Van Sumere and a work from 2010 by the ubiquitous Willy Peeters, "Tussen verankering en vrijheid".

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Sinkee

February 12, 2023

This church, located in the Groot Begijnhof, was built in 1232 in Romanesque style. During recent renovation works, unique frescoes from the 14th, 15th and 17th centuries were uncovered.

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Location: Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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