# Leuven

Indexable Leuven short-break planner for source-backed route decisions.

## Core routes
- [Leuven Short Break Planner](https://leuven.app/): A decision-led start page for matching Leuven's university identity, Gothic civic core, beguinage walks, beer rhythm, and Brussels rail access to the right trip shape.
- [Brussels to Leuven](https://leuven.app/brussels-to-leuven/): An arrival guide for deciding between a focused Leuven day from Brussels, a one-night stay, and a better Flanders alternative.
- [One-Night Leuven Itinerary](https://leuven.app/one-night-itinerary/): A practical one-night sequence that protects the civic core, the knowledge-city layer, a real evening, and a calmer second morning.
- [Where to Stay in Leuven](https://leuven.app/where-to-stay/): A stay-base decision guide for readers choosing between station convenience, historic core immersion, student-nightlife proximity, and quieter second-day access.
- [Leuven Town Hall and Saint Peter's](https://leuven.app/gothic-town-hall-and-st-peters/): A civic-core guide for slowing down around Leuven's main square, Gothic stone, church art, museum context, and belfry heritage.
- [KU Leuven, the Library, and the Great Beguinage](https://leuven.app/ku-leuven-library-and-beguinage/): A knowledge-city route that connects university life, library memory, beguinage streets, and the quieter waterline behind the center.
- [Leuven Beer, Oude Markt, and Green Brabant](https://leuven.app/beer-oude-markt-and-green-brabant/): A social-life and green-edge guide for choosing when beer culture leads, when it supports the evening, and when a second morning should leave the center.

## Narrative pillars
- Knowledge City: Leuven should read first as a working university city, where KU Leuven, colleges, libraries, courtyards, and student rhythm explain why the center feels dense rather than merely pretty.
- Gothic Civic Heart: The Grote Markt, Town Hall, Saint Peter's, and belfry context give Leuven a civic core that deserves slower looking before the page sends readers toward beer or green edges.
- Library Memory: The University Library carries wartime destruction, reconstruction, and international memory, so it must be handled as a serious civic and academic layer, not as a decorative viewpoint.
- Beguinage And Water: The Great Beguinage, Dijle channels, Park Abbey, and quieter green routes create the walking counterweight to the market squares and student nightlife.
- Beer And Social Life: Oude Markt, De Hoorn, Stella Artois, cafes, and student energy belong in the guide, but only after the city has been framed as more than a beer stop.
- Green Brabant Edge: A strong Leuven trip knows when the compact center is enough and when Park Abbey, Arenberg, Heverlee, or wider Flemish Brabant gives the second day useful breathing room.

## Editorial judgements
- Knowledge before convenience (https://leuven.app/): Leuven is useful when the guide treats the university, civic stone, library memory, beguinage streets, beer, and green edge as one compact city system rather than as a quick Brussels add-on.
- A rail day has a ceiling (https://leuven.app/brussels-to-leuven/): From Brussels, Leuven can work cleanly as a day when the reader chooses the civic core and one supporting layer; it becomes better overnight when evening beer, library memory, and green edges all matter.
- The overnight protects the evening (https://leuven.app/one-night-itinerary/): A one-night Leuven plan should let the first afternoon establish the civic and university frame, then use the evening and second morning for social life, memory, and a quieter walk.
- The stay base sets the city (https://leuven.app/where-to-stay/): Where to stay in Leuven should explain whether the reader wants station efficiency, market-square immersion, university-quarter calm, Oude Markt energy, or green-edge access before naming any hotel style.
- The civic core needs slow looking (https://leuven.app/gothic-town-hall-and-st-peters/): The Town Hall, Grote Markt, Saint Peter's, M Leuven, and belfry context should be treated as Leuven's civic grammar, not as a photo stop before beer.
- Memory is not decoration (https://leuven.app/ku-leuven-library-and-beguinage/): The University Library's destruction and reconstruction, KU Leuven's academic identity, and the Great Beguinage should be written as serious city structure with quiet walking transitions.
- Beer supports the city (https://leuven.app/beer-oude-markt-and-green-brabant/): Leuven beer culture and Oude Markt should give the evening identity, while Park Abbey, Arenberg, and green Brabant decide whether the second day stays social or becomes restorative.

## Editorial depth
- The city fit decision is intellectual and practical (https://leuven.app/): The Leuven start page should decide whether the reader wants a compact Flemish city where university life, Gothic civic stone, beer, memory, water, and green Brabant make one coherent trip.
- The Brussels route is a scope decision (https://leuven.app/brussels-to-leuven/): The Brussels-to-Leuven page should use rail convenience to set the scope of the trip, not to pretend that every Leuven layer fits into a single day.
- The overnight is a sequence, not a list (https://leuven.app/one-night-itinerary/): The one-night Leuven itinerary should protect order: arrive, read the civic core, understand the university layer, let the evening happen, then use the morning for memory or green space.
- The base has a job (https://leuven.app/where-to-stay/): The where-to-stay page should make each Leuven base perform a job: arrival efficiency, market immersion, university calm, evening proximity, or second-day green access.
- The civic core must be read, not consumed (https://leuven.app/gothic-town-hall-and-st-peters/): The Town Hall and Saint Peter's page should teach readers how to slow down in a compact square where architecture, church art, museum context, and belfry heritage reinforce each other.
- Knowledge, memory, and walking belong together (https://leuven.app/ku-leuven-library-and-beguinage/): The KU Leuven and Beguinage page should connect academic life, library memory, waterline walking, and UNESCO beguinage streets as one quieter route through the city.
- Social life needs a green counterweight (https://leuven.app/beer-oude-markt-and-green-brabant/): The beer and green Brabant page should let Oude Markt and brewery context shape the evening while using Park Abbey, Arenberg, or Heverlee to decide the next morning's pace.

## Machine surfaces
- https://leuven.app/discoverability.json
- https://leuven.app/schema.json
- https://leuven.app/network-registry.json