Leuven, Belgium

Small Beguinage

Small Beguinage, Leuven

Leuven's second, more modest beguinage, documented from 1272 near the Sint-Geertrui Abbey. A handful of plain Flemish brick houses along a short street and two alleys, it was secularised after the French Revolution and later restored as ordinary housing.

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Location

Coordinates: 50.885, 4.69889

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