Location
Leuven is easy to reach by car, bus and train.
By train Leuven is only 20 minutes from Brussels, 40 minutes from Antwerp, 50 minutes from Liège, 90 minutes from the Belgian coast and at 2 to 3 hours from cities like Düsseldorf, Paris, Amsterdam, Calais, …
The university city is also only a 15 minute train ride away from Brussels International Airport.
As to car traffic, Leuven is at the junction of two major motorways: E40 and E314.
In Leuven the buses of the public transport company De Lijn will swiftly take you anywhere in the city.