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Explore Leuven in 1470

AI rebuilds Louvain (Leuven) street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.

Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction

Gothic Louvain, 1470

A prosperous Brabant cloth town reborn after 1425 as a university city, Louvain in 1470 shows its new civic pride: the lace-like pinnacles of the recently topped Town Hall and the soaring choir of Sint-Pietersberg. This walk moves from the city walls and gates into the collegiate streets and the Grote Markt, then follows the Dyle past mills and breweries to the brick lanes of the Grand Béguinage and the abbey slopes beyond.

24 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 8 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Leuven as it stood in 1470 (“Leuven”).

The route, scene by scene

  1. 1. Fields outside Naamsepoort
  2. 2. Naamsepoort
  3. 3. Naamsestraat
  4. 4. Colleges, Naamsestraat
  5. ↳ Disputation Hall · interior
  6. 5. Lakenhal (Cloth Hall)
  7. ↳ University Schoolroom · interior
  8. 6. Grote Markt
  9. 7. Stadhuis (Town Hall) façade
  10. ↳ Aldermen's Chamber · interior
  11. 8. Sint-Pieterskerk
  12. ↳ Choir with the Last Supper · interior
  13. 9. Guild houses, Grote Markt
  14. ↳ Drapers' Great Hall · interior
  15. 10. Wolstraat (Wool Street)
  16. ↳ Woolworker's Workshop · interior
  17. 11. Dijle mills and breweries
  18. 12. Brewers' yard by the river
  19. ↳ Cooling Loft · interior
  20. 13. Groot Begijnhof (Grand Béguinage)
  21. ↳ Béguine's Parlour · interior
  22. 14. Handbooghof
  23. 15. Mechelsepoort
  24. 16. Keizersberg Abbey viewpoint