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The Unique Leuven Male Ritual Listed by Unesco
7 June 2023
Meeting in Bali in 2011, a UNESCO committee added Leuven’s Jaartallen, or ‘age set ritual’, to its list of intangible world heritage.
The Leuven Is Easy
5 September 2022
On a visit to the university town of Leuven, Derek Blyth discovers one of Europe’s smartest cities, some of Belgium’s best bars and a walk that takes you to the edge of time.
The American Adventure of 17th-Century Stained Glass From Flanders
28 June 2021
When the religious order at the Park Abbey near Leuven fell on hard times in the 1820s, it sold off a remarkable set of 17th-century stained-glass windows. Split up, passed on, sold and resold, many of the windows ended up in the USA. Now 21 of the 41 windows have been restored to the abbey's cloist
Gates Foundation Finances Leuven University Research for Coronavirus Treatment
26 March 2020
In the search to find a cure for the Coronavirus, The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has sent 15,000 medicinal molecules to Leuven University’s Rega Institute; this research cannot be carried out any faster or safer than there.