フランダースブラバント周辺のおすすめシティハイキング＆ウォーキング

コットマダムの像は、フランダースのVTMシリーズ「デ・コットマダム」の一般的なオープニングにある有名な像です。

This monumental pulpit was made for the abbey church (Norbertines) of Ninove and consists of a rock and two palm trees. At the bottom, the conversion of Norbert is depicted, and Peter in a cave. In 1807, it was transferred to St. Peter's Basilica in Leuven. Source and more: https://ornamentsnijder.blogspot.com/2024/05/preekstoel-in-de-collegiale-sint.html

The first botanical garden of Leuven (a "pharmaceutical plant garden") was built from 1738 onwards under the impetus of Professor Hendrik Rega (1690-1754) on a site between the Dijle and the Voer rivers, where municipal school for girls number 3 was later built. The only thing you can still see of it (Minderbroedersstraat number 50): the gate. The second botanical garden—and the current one—was created by the Leuven landscape architect Guillaume Rosseels (1769-1832), under the direction of the German botanist Professor J.F. Adelman. Based on a design by Charles Vander Straeten (1771-1834), court architect to the Prince of Orange. From 1821 to 1823, the gatehouse with the gardener's cottage, the orangery with greenhouses, and a surrounding wall were built in a strict classical style. In 1835, the state university ceded the botanical garden to the city of Leuven, which has since been called the "Municipal Botanical Garden." The garden's layout was already modified in 1838 to allow for greater plant diversity; the symmetry of the flowerbeds at the foot of the orangery partially disappeared. The orangery itself was also repeatedly renovated. In In 1984, the tropical greenhouse (1880) east of the orangery was replaced by a larger one, allowing it to better accommodate the garden's evolving function: from a scientific herb garden to a recreational botanical garden. In the same vein, the botanical garden was recently expanded to include an area behind the former Marollen Monastery (Kapuchijnenvoer 32), where an orchard and a sunken garden with a Victorian greenhouse were created. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Urban botanical garden, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/42252

The second large church at the end of the Grote Markt - in need of some renovation.

The Grote Markt is the center of the city and invites you to linger.

A venerable house with an open entrance that you simply have to explore as you pass by.

Sint Michiel (German: St. Michael) is a Baroque church in Leuven, Belgium. It is considered the most important Jesuit church in Belgium.

St. Peter's Church is one of those churches with works by several Flemish masters. Dieric Bouts is usually the first to come to mind. You should definitely see the Triptych with the Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus and the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, the latter described as "a milestone in painting in the Low Countries." But there is, of course, much more. The most important pieces and all the information about Bouts's two works can be found at https://www.flemishmastersinsitu.com/nl/locaties/sint-pieterskerk-leuven