Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve: Ottignies: L.N.N. Météo ON4MBL - WebCam en Live
The Dyle valley defines the setting of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve — wooded slopes and the rolling ground of Walloon Brabant frame a municipality combining the older town of Ottignies with the planned university town of Louvain-la-Neuve. Founded in 1969 after the linguistic split of the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve was created for the French-speaking university, now UCLouvain. Its centre is deliberately organised around pedestrian streets and squares, with much traffic kept below or at the edge of the core. This gives the place an unusually urban campus character, while woodland and residential districts remain close by. The Dyle runs through Ottignies, linking the commune to the wider Brabant landscape.
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Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve has served as a university centre in Wallonia since the 1970s, when the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain began building its new campus here. The municipality combines the older railway town of Ottignies with Louvain-la-Neuve, a deliberately planned, largely pedestrian university city. Lac de Louvain-la-Neuve and the nearby Bois de Lauzelle bring water and woodland into its urban setting. The Hergé Museum honours the Belgian creator of Tintin. Explore nearby webcam locations that provide complementary perspectives on Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and Walloon Brabant.
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