Leuven
Flemish Brabant, Belgium · Population 104,009
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The live board stays pinned. Under it, the two things a newcomer needs and can't read in English anywhere else: what a landlord may lawfully ask for, and what people are really paying.
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Leuven Trains — Live
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What They Can Ask You For Before You Get the Keys
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What People Actually Pay to Rent Here
Driving into the Centre
The centre is five loops off the ring and you cannot cut between them — where to park for where you are going, and whether you may drive into your street at all.
Air & Pollen Check
Today's air over Leuven in plain language, hourly — and the honest reason there's no low-emission zone here.
Which Bin Does It Go In?
Search any household item and see which Ecowerf bag or container it belongs in — glasbol, blue bag, GFT or the recycling park.
Getting Set Up in Leuven
Registration, a doctor, water, waste and the police — the newcomer numbers, in English, in one place.
Leuven's Year
The city's recurring festivals and observances in the order they next come around — Leuven Jazz, the Innovation Beerfestival, Beleuvenissen, Hapje-Tapje and the car-free Autovrije Zondag — each linking to the organiser's own page to confirm before you plan around it.
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Changelog
- UpdatedDriving into the Centre no longer repeats the same source line under every car park
- Town updatePinned the rent tools on the town page
- New toolNew: Air & Pollen Check
- UpdatedAdded the fourth randparking to Driving into the Centre
- New toolShipped Leuven's Year
- New toolRenting in Leuven, in English: the rules, and what people actually pay
- Town updateAdded a sketch of the town hall on the Grote Markt
- New toolShipped a guide to driving into the centre
- New toolShipped a live train board for Leuven station
- New townLeuven is live — the first Belgian town on Town Tools
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