Editor Pick
Town Hall
- June 26, 2002
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Adelaide from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The construction of the Town Hall started in 1439. There are three floors. Between the windows there are oriels, each with two niches; three corner-turrets also have niches. The carved bases of these niches represent biblical subjects. The 236 statues in the niches were only placed after 1850. Contrary to the figures in the bases who wear Burgundian clothes, the persons in the niches wear the clothes of the period in which they lived. The two rows of the ground floor represent artists, scholars and eminent citizens of the Leuven past. The first floor displays figures who symbolize the municipal privileges and the patron saints of the parishes. On the second floor the Counts of Leuven and the Dukes of Brabant can be viewed; the turrets represent biblical figures.
From journal Leuven, a belgian surprise