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Old Square (Leuven)

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The Old Square is a square (rectangular though) in the centre of Leuven. Its nickname is the longest bar-counter in the world because most of the buildings there are bars. With the goal of the square itself being open 24 hours a day, some bars take over from each other.

Old Square, all day, all night

You can go out at the Old Square for days on end, without interruption, because there's almost always at least one bar open. How they try (and mostly manage) to do this is (among others): except on véry slow nights, café d'Oase remains open until at least 10AM. While other bars close one by one, the patrons that don't feel like going home gather there, keeping it going. 10AM is also when De Weerelt opens up. There are other bars involved (Seven Eleven for one).

Events

Barman-race: first sunday of August. Beleuvenissen: small festival every friday of July. Carnival: twice a year: first three weeks of September and [citation needed]. Marktrock: music festival, mid-August. Student Welcome: end of Septembre.

Architecture&Sculpture

Facade of Heilige Drievuldigheidscollege. Classicist wing of the University Hall (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). De Kotmadam, a statue from 1985 by Fred Bellefroid.

External links

• Visitors rating the Old Square as a (tourist) attraction or hang-out
• Virtual bar-crawl&pictures, outdated by 13 years or 10 bars, in Dutch