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Bookmark & shareLively Leuven, ancient cloth capital of Vlaams-Brabant, now hums to a different tune.
This picturesque and upbeat Flemish city is just 25km (15mi) from Brussels. Once home to the Dukes of Brabant (1200 BC), and an important cloth trading centre in medieval times, modern Leuven is shaped by its healthy student population - some 25,000 of them - more than a quarter of the town's population.
Fast Facts
Population
90,700
Currency
Name: Euro
Code: EUR
Symbol: €
Electrical Plugs
230V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Dutch, French, German
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +1
Country Dialing Code
+32
Weights & Measures
Metric
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