Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is a municipality and city of Wallonia in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. It is made up of the sub-municipalities of Ottignies, Louvain-la-Neuve, Céroux-Mousty and Limelette, and had a total population of 29,521 on 1 January 2006 over an area of 32.96 square kilometres. Louvain-la-Neuve, often shortened to LLN, is a new town developed from 1968 to house UCLouvain, the French-speaking part of the former Catholic University of Louvain after its separation from the Dutch-speaking part, which stayed in the older city of Leuven. The Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park, created in 1971, was the first of its kind in Belgium and is the biggest in Wallonia, covering 231 hectares. The lime and mineral solutions group Lhoist has its head office in Limelette. Ottignies station is an important interchange and one of the busiest in Wallonia, and local sport includes the Royal Ottignies Stimont football club and the Rugby Ottignies Club.