The Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (in
French: ''Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme''), often called LOCI, is the 14th faculty of the
University of Louvain
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, Belgium. It became an independent faculty in 2009, with the merger of three institutes founded between 1867 and 1882, and is active in
Brussels
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(
Saint-Gilles),
Tournai
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and
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...
.
Description
Structure
LOCI is a component of
UCLouvain's Science and Technology Sector (SST). Its headquarters and the
dean
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* ...
's office are located in
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...
, in buildings shared with the
Louvain School of Engineering
The Louvain School of Engineering or ''École polytechnique de Louvain'' (EPL) is a faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1864. Known as the Faculty of Applied Sciences (''Faculté des sciences appliquées'') prior to 2008, it c ...
, though the majority of its students, staff, teaching and activity take place on the UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai campuses.
Its abbreviated name refers to
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word for given places, ''
loci''.
Within the faculty, four different so-called ''Commissions de programme'' organise and supervise the teaching curricula: one commission for the
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
s in architecture (BARC), one for the bachelor in architectural civil engineering (BIAR), and same for the
master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. s (MARC and MIAR). In addition to these commissions which can be considered as undergraduate and graduate departments, the School of urbanism and territorial planning (URBA) coordinates teaching and research in urban planning.
Studies
LOCI organizes studies in
architectural civil engineering in
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...
, and
architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
in
Tournai
Tournai or Tournay ( ; ; nl, Doornik ; pcd, Tornai; wa, Tornè ; la, Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Tournai is part of Euromet ...
and
Brussels
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. Studies in
architectural civil engineering are organized jointly with the
Louvain School of Engineering
The Louvain School of Engineering or ''École polytechnique de Louvain'' (EPL) is a faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1864. Known as the Faculty of Applied Sciences (''Faculté des sciences appliquées'') prior to 2008, it c ...
. Together, the Louvain School of Engineering and LOCI hold 40% of the
Wallonia-Brussels Federation
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's engineering students, making it the country's largest
engineering school
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, by far.
Undergraduate studies
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(3 years)
* Bachelor in architecture (Brussels and Tournai)
* Bachelor in engineering science, orientation architectural civil engineer (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Graduate studies
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The organization and struc ...
(2 years)
* Master : architectural civil engineer (Louvain-la-Neuve)
* Master in architecture (Brussels and Tournai)
Specialized masters (1 year)
* Specialized master's degree in urban and territorial planning (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Doctoral studies
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* Doctorate in engineering sciences and technology
* Doctorate in construction engineering and urban planning
Research
At the research level, the faculty takes part in the Doctoral Commission of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Construction and Urban Planning (CDI). It also comprises a research institute within the faculty itself (LOCI-R or ''Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme - Recherche''), being the university's only faculty comprising such structure. This institute is further made up of several research centres including:
* Architecture and Climate Research Centre
* Research and Study Centre for Territorial Action (CREAT)
* ''Laboratoire Analyse Architecture''
* ''Structure & Technologie'' Research Team
* Uses&Spaces Research Team
* LoCiLoCal Research Team
* Mobility & Urbanism Research Team
* UrbaSuds Research Team
Other laboratories, centres and institutes were founded on particular campus, as LoCiLoCaL in Tournai, Metrolab in Brussels (a trans-disciplinary institute of the
Brussels Capital-Region jointly organised by
UCLouvain and the ''
Université libre de Bruxelles'') or the Doctoral Seminars on Sustainability in the Built Environment which are organised by eight
Belgian universities (
Hasselt,
Ghent
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,
Liège
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The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
,
VUB,
ULB,
KU Leuven
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and
UCLouvain).
History and locations
In application of the
Bologna Process harmonising the
European Higher Education Area
The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bologna Process.
As the main objective of the Bologna Process since its ince ...
, the faculty brings together the former ''Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Bruxelles'' and ''Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Wallonie'' in Tournai, and the architecture and urban planning units of the
''École polytechnique de Louvain'' (then called Faculty of Applied Sciences). The LOCI faculty thus occupies the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve, UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai.
When it was founded in 2010, the faculty was for a short period called the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Town and Territorial Planning (AIAU).
Brussels Saint-Gilles
The ''
Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles'' was founded under the name ''Institut Jean Béthune'' by the members of the
Institut des Frères des écoles chrétiennes (the De La Salle Brothers), first in the Brussels municipality of
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
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in 1882, then in 1887 on rue des Palais in
Schaerbeek
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.
The ''École Saint-Luc Institut Supérieur d'Architecture'' was founded there in 1938 as a
non-profit association
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. The
Dutch-speaking
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equivalent of LOCI, the
KU Leuven
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's Faculty of Architecture, is still located there, on its ''Sint-Lucas Brussel'' campus.
Like the one in
Tournai
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, the institute was then part of the series of Saint-Luc art schools established in the majority of major
Belgian
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cities. In the meantime, a Saint-Luc centre was created in the municipality of
Saint-Gilles in 1904.
Following the language crises of the 1960s and the
Leuven crisis of 1968, the institute split in two and the French-speaking department of the Institute of Architecture moved to the municipality of
Ixelles
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, near the Saint-Luc secondary school and art school already present in Saint-Gilles. The Institute of Architecture establishes its headquarters at 70 rue Defacqz, near
avenue Louise
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, in a simple house. In reality, it is a vast settlement abandoned by the Meurice Institute of Chemistry (nowadays part of the ''Haute école libre Lucia de Brouckère'' and located on the CERIA campus in
Anderlecht
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), hidden behind residential buildings and straddling
Ixelles
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and
Saint-Gilles. Lectures are also given in the building on rue d'Irlande, the headquarters of the Saint-Luc institutes in Brussels.
The folkloric student association ''Cercle des étudiants architectes de Saint-Luc'' was formed in 1973 followed by the association of former students of the ISA Saint-Luc in 1981, called Architecture Recherche Communication (dissolved in 2009). Yet a Catholic institution, the students of Saint-Luc are wearing the penne instead of the
calotte. In 1986, the school's organizing power was again centralized and transferred to the "organizing committee of the Saint-Luc Institutes in Saint-Gilles".
In 1965, a vast
international-style International style may refer to:
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building was built on the
Chaussée de Charleroi
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, n° 132 in Saint-Gilles, by architect Émile Verhaegen, also founder and president of the ''UCL-Saint-Luc'' research centre in
Louvain-la-Neuve
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. The building which hosted offices, was taken over by the Institut Saint-Luc, of which Émile Verhaegen was a member, during the 1990s, and was from then on used by the ISA Saint-Luc. This remained the architecture school's main location until the merger with
UCLouvain.
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The
Wallonia-Brussels Federation
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decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities the right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools (ISA, ''Instituts supérieurs d'architecture'', which were a separate type of institutions of higher education, next to universities, colleges and schools of arts).
In 2010, ISA Saint-Luc left the
Saint-Luc Institutes of Brussels to merge by absorption within the
University of Louvain
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.
During its first year within UCLouvain, the newly established LOCI Faculty kept settled in the ISA Saint-Luc buildings on the
Chaussée de Charleroi
The Chaussée de Charleroi () or Charleroisesteenweg (Dutch) is a major street in Brussels, Belgium, running through the municipalities of Saint-Gilles and the City of Brussels. It connects the / in the City of Brussels to the Ma Campagne cr ...
.
As soon as the merger was completed, a brand new campus was opened, still in
Saint-Gilles and the neighbourhood of the ''Instituts Saint-Luc'', called ''UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles'', located at rue Wafelaerts, next to the Saint-Gilles prison.
The new buildings constitute the former Sanders Pharmaceutical Laboratories, designed in the
Beaux-Arts style
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in 1927 and listed as protected on Brussels' regional heritage list since 1996.
The UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles campus has its own administration including a
vice-dean and library (BAIU-Brussels).
Tournai
The ''Institut Saint-Luc de Tournai'' was founded in 1878 in front of the
Notre-Dame Cathedral of Tournai (in what is now the Brothers of Tournai school) as a drawing school, together with the Saint-Grégoire music school, intended for the teaching of
church organ
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...
.
In what was at the time the independent commune of
Ramegnies-Chin, the ''Passy-Froyennes Institute'' was founded in 1904,
with a vast new
neo-Gothic
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building that still houses Saint-Luc Tournai today. In fact, it was the transfer to
Belgium
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, but very near the
French border, of a boarding school founded in 1839 by the
Brothers of the Christian Schools
french: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes
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in
Passy (now in
Paris
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),
following the
Combes Law of 1904.
The ''Institut Saint-Luc de Lille'' also had to close its doors
and some of its assets were also transferred to Tournai, 25 km away. The Institute was legally founded as a non-profit
ASBL
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Australia
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in 1924.
By 1936, the school, mainly an
architecture school
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Africa
...
, had 500 students.
Architecture courses were also held in downtown Tournai, rue de la Tête d'Or and rue du Chambge, up until the
Second World War
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. The French
De La Salle brothers lived at the institute, almost in exile, until 1959, when they returned to France to found the La Salle Passy Buzenval collège, one of Paris' most prestigious secondary schools. The institute's management was then taken back by the brotherhood of Saint-Luc. Over time, the ''
Institut des hautes études des communications sociales
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'' communication school (IHECS, now in the
city of Brussels
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) and the bases of the ''Institut des Arts de Diffusion'' cinema school (IAD, now in
Louvain-la-Neuve
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) were both founded at Saint-Luc Tournai.
Similarly to Brussels, an ''organizing committee'' of the Institut St-Luc de Tournai had been made responsible for the centralized management of secondary school, art school, architecture school and schools of continued and specialized education, since 1955. From 1979 onwards, architecture has been taught within the ''Institut supérieur d'Architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai (Ramegnies-Chin)'', holding the statute of an independent school of architecture.
In 1982, a research institute called ''Études et Recherches architecturales de l'ISA'' (abbreviated ERA) was set up, which carried out research in architecture and urban planning in Tournai until it became integrated UCLouvain.
Since 1987, the ''Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Liège'' and ''Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai'' had been grouped together within one same legal entity, the Saint-Luc de Wallonie Higher Institute of Architecture, a non-profit
ASBL
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with notably
Melchior Wathelet
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on its Board of Directors.
The
Wallonia-Brussels Federation
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decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities the right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools.
The same year, ISA Saint-Luc Tournai initiated discussions to integrate the
University of Louvain
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, as well as discussions with institutions located in France, given its large capital of French students. In 2009, the association I.S.A. St-Luc Wallonie was dissolved, transferring the ISA Saint-Luc de Liège to the
University of Liège
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, and the ISA Saint-Luc de Tournai to the ''
Université catholique de Louvain
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''. The Faculty of Architecture of UCLouvain was thus created and continued to teach architecture within the complex of the Chaussée de Tournai in Ramegnies-Chin. However, like in Brussels, the university started establishing plans for an independent and proper architecture campus in the Tournai city-center.
In 2012, the UCLouvain took over the Hôtel des Anciens Prêtres building (now the ''Hôtel des Architectes'', which currently houses the administrative services), bought from the
city of Tournai, as well as a former building of the
State Archives in Tournai (''Archives''), which itself had moved to the former site of the
Casterman
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History
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printing house in 2010. UCLouvain also decided buy the adjacent site belonging to
Cofidis
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Founded in 1982 by 3 Suisses International in cooperation with Cetelem, Cofidis specialized in the consumer credit business of the 3 Suisses Group. I ...
(currently the ''Manufacture'' and ''Filature'' Buildings). Portuguese architectural firm Aires Mateus was appointed to design the new site, including the construction of a
deconstructivist
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connecting building.
In 2017, the Tournai campus of the
University of Louvain
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was inaugurated, with its main entrance located rue du Glategnies.
As in Brussels, the UCLouvain Tournai campus has its own administration including a
vice-dean and library (BAIU-Tournai).
Louvain-la-Neuve
Beginnings in Louvain
The
Catholic University of Louvain
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has been offering
engineering degrees in
Louvain
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(''Leuven'') since 1964, within the so-called ''
Écoles speciales'' or Special Schools, part of the Faculty of Sciences.
The Special School of Architecture was one of the last to be founded, with the Special School of Electricity.
The ''Écoles spéciales'' moved to the
Arenberg Castle
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in
Heverlee
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The town is the loca ...
, in the suburbs of Louvain, between 1925 and 1931.
The School of Urban and Regional Planning (URBA), whose structure within the faculty has remained intact since then, was founded in 1961.
The same year, the ''Écoles spéciales'' merged into the
Faculty of Applied Sciences (''Faculté des sciences appliquées'', FSA), as an entity which for the first time was independent from the Faculty of Science.
The Faculty was linguistically separated in 1964 into the
Dutch-speaking
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''Faculteit ingenieurswetenschappen'' and the
francophone
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''Faculté des sciences appliquées''.
Together with the other
civil engineering
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students,
architectural engineering
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Archi ...
students were the first to move to the new city of
Louvain-la-Neuve
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following the
split of the Catholic University of Louvain in 1968. In 1971, the
French-speaking
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
programmes of the Faculty of Applied Sciences were still offered on the
Heverlee
Heverlee () is a town in Belgium. It is a borough of the city of Leuven. Heverlee is bordered by Herent, Bertem, Oud Heverlee and several other municipalities that are part of Leuven (including Leuven proper and Kessel-Lo).
The town is the loca ...
campus. From 1973, the programs for the last three years of
civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...
were given at the new
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...
site, while the ''candidature'' degrees (undergraduate) were still being taught at Heverlee. In 1975, the entire
Faculty of Applied Sciences (FSA) of the UCL was established in Louvain-la-Neuve. The students from the faculty were the first students (and residents) of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve.
In 1983, Émile Verhaegen, President of the ISA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, founded the ''Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de l'Architecture U.C.L. - Saint-Luc'' research center, abbreviated CREARCH, in Louvain-la-Neuve.
With the creation of the new Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning in 2009, the Department of architectural civil engineering was transferred from the
Louvain School of Engineering
The Louvain School of Engineering or ''École polytechnique de Louvain'' (EPL) is a faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1864. Known as the Faculty of Applied Sciences (''Faculté des sciences appliquées'') prior to 2008, it c ...
to the new LOCI faculty. The
deanship and the central administrative headquarters of LOCI are located in Louvain-la-Neuve, in buildings still shared with the School of Engineering.
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Louvain School of Engineering
The Louvain School of Engineering or ''École polytechnique de Louvain'' (EPL) is a faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1864. Known as the Faculty of Applied Sciences (''Faculté des sciences appliquées'') prior to 2008, it c ...
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Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...
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