Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (; French for "New Leuven"; ) 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 Louvain (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 i
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Louvain-la-Neuve
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Planned city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Louvain-la-Neuve01 1999-11-16.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main Square of Louvain-la-Neuve
- Settlement.image_flag
- Drapeau Ottignies-LLN.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_map
- OLL Brabant-Wallon Belgium Map.PNG
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location within Walloon Brabant
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Language crisis
- Construction
- Description
- The ''24 heures vélo''
- Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park
- The Hergé Museum
- See also
- References
- External links
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