Leuven
Entertainment
Kids will love Kessel-Lo Provincial Park, approximately three kilometres from the city centre. It’s an enormous playground full of pedal boats, go-karts, mini golf heated outdoor pool, rollerskating rinks, football pitches, skate ramps and other sporting and recreational facilities. It’s also an educational centre, with an eco-house outlining the use of water and other natural resources. There’s also a bee house with regular demonstrations of beekeeping, as well as a children’s zoo with farm animals such as goats, sheep and donkeys and chickens and domestic animals such as rabbits. For keen gardeners there are fruit orchards and herb gardens. All in all, it’s a really enjoyable day out for the whole family.
As far as evening entertainment is concerned, the student population ensures that there’s always a great atmosphere in the city’s many pubs, clubs, bars and cafes. The best places to go are the Grote Markt and the Oude Markt. One of the most well known bars in the city is the tiny Onder den Toog just off the Oude Markt, which claims to be the smallest in Belgium.
The Belgians know how to put on a good party and they don’t come better than the annual three-day Rock Werchter festival in July. It has been going strong since 1975 and continues to pull in the crowds every year with dozens of big name rock bands. It’s held in Werchter, a small village just outside Leuven, so most festival goers make Leuven their base.
As far as evening entertainment is concerned, the student population ensures that there’s always a great atmosphere in the city’s many pubs, clubs, bars and cafes. The best places to go are the Grote Markt and the Oude Markt. One of the most well known bars in the city is the tiny Onder den Toog just off the Oude Markt, which claims to be the smallest in Belgium.
The Belgians know how to put on a good party and they don’t come better than the annual three-day Rock Werchter festival in July. It has been going strong since 1975 and continues to pull in the crowds every year with dozens of big name rock bands. It’s held in Werchter, a small village just outside Leuven, so most festival goers make Leuven their base.