11 June 2007
This canal is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This canal is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This garden is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This garden is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This street is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This street is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
A corner-saint in the Great Beguinage.
Most such statues that I saw in Belgium were of Mary, but I think this one might be of a Benguine because of her dress and because of the building that she holds. The statue also looks like it's a recent addition, perhaps installed by an artist living in the complex.
Benguinages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
A representation of the passion of Jesus, placed over a doorway, shows the religious roots of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Xena (my adorable dog that I haven't seen since Haloween of 2007) in the Great Benguinage of Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Xena (my adorable dog that I haven't seen since Haloween of 2007) in the Great Benguinage of Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
The carving on the door says "Inden Ber . . ch Thabor 1649"
A representation of Jesus rusing from the dead, placed over a doorway, shows the religious roots of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This is one of the stations of the cross. Jesus falls twice in the stations. I don't know if this is the first of the second time.
This shows the religious roots of the Great Benguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This street is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Nicole takes a photo in the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Jesus is crucified.
The stations of the cross are embedded in the buildings in the Great Benguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This street is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This street is part of the Great Beguinage.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This garden is part of the Great Beguinage. Note the crucifix among the trees.
Bengiunages were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
These buildings are part of a complex called Great Beguinage.
These residential settlements were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
A fren growing from a wall of the Great Benguinage of Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
The Holy Trinity - Jesus on the left, Father God on the right, Holy Spirit overhead.
A statue of the Holy Trinity in the outside wall of a building at the Great Bengiunage of Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
These buildings are part of a complex called Great Beguinage.
These residential settlements were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
This church is part of a complex called Great Beguinage.
These residential settlements were originally for women widowed by the crusades, but then became monastic settlements for women. Today, this one is used mostly as student housing for the large university in town (the oldest in BeNeLux).
In Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Buildings on the Oude Markt in Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
The stadhuis was just crawling with figures of people. Under the bigger statues, there are statues of smaller people.
Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
The stadhuis was just crawling with figures of people. Under the bigger statues, there are statues of smaller people.
Leuven, Belgium
11 June 2007
Buildings and cafes on the Oude Markt in Leuven, Belgium
Everybody serves Stella, brewed in town.
11 June 2007
We left town in search of a camp site.
This view was very exciting to me when I took this picture. Look at the landscape! It's got hills!
South of Leuven, Belgium
