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Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve

Student Fountain "Léon and Valérie"

Wallonie

Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve

Student Fountain "Léon and Valérie"

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Student Fountain "Léon and Valérie"

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Location: Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Katrien

July 9, 2023

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Located on the Place de l'Université, the fountain depicts two students, Léon and Valérie, crouching around an open book, but their reading is made difficult by the boiling water. Nine …

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Willem VS

November 13, 2023

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Squatting around an open book, dressed as Adam and Eve, two perfectly sculpted lovebirds seem absorbed in a shared moment. Rest assured, this is not the scenario of a very bad porn film but of this emblematic neo-louvanist fountain: Léon and Valérie.

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Elevation 160 m

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Thursday 14 May

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Max wind speed: 16.0 km/h

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Location: Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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