Leuven and its region: City trip in Belgium

By Cristina Rebiere and Olivier Rebiere

We welcome you to your Voyage Expérience guide: "Leuven and its region",  which will help you discover this beautiful city of Belgium and other nearby cities that are well worth a visit. Leuven will enchant you with its architecture, parks and beguinages. We discovered this great city when we were young and living in Belgium. However, we still visit it every time we return to this country, which happens at least once a year, because it always has so much charm. As the guides on Belgium are rather dedicated to Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges, I thought of writing one on this magnificent city that has nothing to envy to the other three that are more famous. I’ll provide a concise overview of what you can visit in Leuven and its nearby region, whether it’s for a day, a weekend or an entire week.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
• Release date: Jul 20, 2023

Cristina Rebiere

Courte biographie:Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.Ses origines:Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.Domaines de compétence:management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure

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Leuven

and its region

City trip in Belgium

A vitamin supplement to classic tourist guides, to consume without moderation!

Cristina & Olivier Rebière

Copyright © Cristina & Olivier Rebière

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Table of Contents

Practical tips for Belgium

How to navigate the eGuide?

GeoNAV

PhotoNAV

IcoNAV

Flemish Region - Flanders

1. Leuven

2. Aarschot

3. Diest

4. Tienen

Belgium: general presentation of the country

Belgian gastronomy

Credits and authors

Introduction

We welcome you to your Voyage Expérience guide: "Leuven and its region", which will help you discover this beautiful city of Belgium and other nearby cities that are well worth a visit. Leuven will enchant you with its architecture, parks and beguinages. We discovered this great city when we were young and living in Belgium. However, we still visit it every time we return to this country, which happens at least once a year, because it always has so much charm. As the guides on Belgium are rather dedicated to Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges, I thought of writing one on this magnificent city that has nothing to envy to the other three that are more famous. I’ll provide a concise overview of what you can visit in Leuven and its nearby region, whether it’s for a day, a weekend or an entire week. If we were to write about all the places we visited, it would fill books of hundreds of pages, and the cost of printing in color would make the prices of our Voyage Experience guides prohibitive. Currently, paper versions are still preferred over electronic versions. Therefore, we always aim to highlight the most significant sites and synthesize as much information as possible. This paper book is based on an ebook that you can get for free on your smartphone or tablet (see at the end of the book the modalities) and where you can use all the features explained in the following section: "How to use the eguide". The eGuide offers you another approach to travel, between logbook and classic guide. You can imagine that we don’t have a team like Lonely Planet, so you will not find in this guide full of addresses of accommodation or restaurants. We share with you our own travels, discoveries and personal experiences. We hope this will help you discover new destinations and make you want to visit them. Note that the electronic version works almost like a website and doesn’t need to be used with an Internet connection (unless you want to access OpenStreetMap and the other hyperlinks we give you throughout