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"The Pearl on the Dijle, the Oxford of Belgium, the Beer Capital of the World, the Best City of Brabant: the residents of Leuven know how to promote their city with honorary titles. Besides the flashy titles, the people of Leuven proudly bear the nickname 'cow shooters'. “In the seventeenth century, the night watchmen of the city thought they were being attacked by the French, who were besieging the city, in a dense fog. When the fog lifted in the morning, the heroic guards saw that they had shot down a herd of cows,” tells us the city guide Andries Lagae about the legend.
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