What can one experience here?

  • Walking

    Walking

  • Cycling

    Cycling

  • Recreational domain/playground

    Recreational domain/playground

  • In the period of around 1100, the Duke of Brabant, or Godfried the Bearded, used the park as his hunting ground before giving it to the Norbertines. 
  • The tradition of communal life and pastoral work is now continued by a small group of Norbertines. 
  • The abbey boasts an extraordinary art collection, an unblemished interior, a library containing over 6,000 old prints and a well-preserved ancient archive. 
  • Around the abbey lie the walls and gate houses, the water mill, the mighty farm and the tithe barn. 
  • In the churchyard you can find the monuments of some famous people.
  • Abdij van Park(©Kristel Van Loock)
  • Abdij van Park (©Toerisme Vlaams-Brabant)

Park Abbey

Abdij van Park 7,
3001 Heverlee (Leuven)
Tel. +32 16 27 44 80

www.abdijvanpark.be