| VISTING LEUVEN |
You are welcome to join us at the 13th edition of the International Shortfilmfestival Leuven, Belgium. On this page you'll find some extra info about the festival, the city of Leuven, how to travel to Leuven a.s.o.
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| ABOUT THE CITY OF LEUVEN |
Leuven is a relatively small city (100.000 inhabitants), 20 kilometers near Brussels.
Leuven is widely known for two things: it harbours one of the largest and oldest universities in Europe. The K.U.Leuven was founded in 1425 and has more than 25.000 students today.
Leuven is also the hometown of INBEV, the largest brewery in the world, famous for it's beer Stella Artois (since 1366), one of the best known (and may we add: best tasting) beers. |
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Leuven itself was founded in the 11th century and has a fabelous historic city centre (with the magnificent town hall) and a worldwide known Beguinage (officially recognized as an UNESCO World Heritage site). Due to the creative input of students, it always stayed a vivid, young and creative environment. In a city where the historical buildings are only surpassed by the number of pubs and bars (following our last count:180, but it's possible we've missed some) there is always something going on.
The festival organizes free guided tours of the historical spots, so be sure to join us.
Leuven harbours a series of interesting cultural organisations and events. Besides the the ISFFL there's also the International Arts Centre STUK (www.stuk.be), the International Contemporary Dance Festival Klapstuk, the programmation of the local cultural center 30CC (www.30CC.be), the huge city rock festival "Marktrock" (www.marktrock.be), The Afrika Film Festival (www.afrikafilmfestival.be), the cultural festival Kulturama (www.kulturama.be), the club concerts of Het Depot (www.depot.be) and so on. |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CITY
You can find more en detailed information about Leuven on the official website: www.leuven.be
TOURISTIC INFORMATION BUREAU'S
Toerisme Leuven
Grote Markt 9
3000 Leuven
www.leuven.be (tourist subsite)
In & Uit Leuven
Naamsestraat 96
3000 Leuven
www.inenuitleuven.be
MORE NICE LINKS
www.drieduizend.be (photo blog, a new photo of Leuven every day!)
10 things to do in Leuven (besides visting our festival of course)
www.trabel.com/leuven
www.planetware.com |
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| THE ROAD TO LEUVEN |
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By plane
Leuven is a 20 minute drive from the Brussels National Airport (40 minutes by train).
The lowcost airline company, Ryainair, flies to Charleroi from 10 different cities.
If you inform us about your flight and arrival/departure time, we make the necessary arrangements to pick you up at the airport.
By train
In Brussels South trains arrive from ever corner of Europe .
If you are coming from London , Lille or Paris you can take the Eurostar. If you are coming from France , Germany or the Netherlands , you could take a train of the Thalys network. For international timetables, click here or inform with our guest coordinator.
By car
Leuven is situated close to the A3 (in Belgium called E40) highway between Brussels and Liège (Luik). Comming from the north; follow the A2 (in Belgium called the E314) between Leuven and Genk. |
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| CITY MAP |
city map
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Adress:
International Shoirt Film Festival leuven
(Arts Center STUK)
Naamsestraat 96
3000 leuven
BELGIUM |
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| GUEST CARE |
(FOR INVITED GUESTS ONLY!)
Every international guest will receive an accreditionpass which can be used for every screening during the entire festival, as long the program isn't fully booked. Furthermore every guest will receive 2 nights in the luxurious hotel, Art-Theater Hotel (however, our available rooms aren't limitless, so be sure to confirm as early as possible). And to top it off, we invite you to sit at our table every noon and evening, meals are prepared by our chef who specializes in local and Belgian delicacies.
We also have an appartement and two houses for our guests at our disposal. Since we work on a first come, first served basis and the number of rooms is unfortunately not limitless, be sure to request your accreditation as soon as possible.
Guest coördinator
Frank Moens
+32/16/320.310 |
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