# Blandijn

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The **Blandijn**, short for **Blandijnberg**, is a building complex of [Ghent University](/source/Ghent_University) in the [Belgian](/source/Belgium) city [Ghent](/source/Ghent) and directly adjacent to [Boekentoren](/source/Boekentoren), the tower of the [Ghent University Library](/source/Ghent_University_Library). The Blandijn, named after the [Blandijnberg hill](/source/Blandijnberg) it stands on, houses the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy. The first part of the Blandijn buildings was officially opened in 1960.[1] The Blandijn complex is located centrally in [Ghent](/source/Ghent)'s student neighborhood. There are several other university buildings within walking distance of the Blandijn.

In the 1960s to 1980s, there were several [student demonstrations](/source/Student_activism) at the site of the Blandijn.[2] The severest demonstrations took place in 1969 in the wake of [May 1968](/source/May_1968_in_France). Currently, the university is working on the renovation of libraries both in the Blandijn and in the [Boekentoren](/source/Boekentoren). All seminary libraries within the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy are being centralized in the Rozier-building,[3] whereas the Boekentoren is facing a make-over. All documents in the tower will temporarily be relocated to an underground library under the court between the Boekentoren and the Blandijn, the construction of which was finished in 2013.

## Notes

1. ["1957 Bouw Blandijn"](http://www.ugentmemorie.be/gebeurtenissen/1957-bouw-blandijn) (in Dutch). UGent Memorie. Retrieved January 10, 2012.

1. Danniau, Fien. ["Haard van verzet"](http://www.ugentmemorie.be/artikel/haard-van-verzet) (in Dutch). UGent Memorie. Retrieved January 10, 2012.

1. ["Masterplan"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111218211435/http://www.flw.ugent.be/masterplan) (in Dutch). Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, [Ghent University](/source/Ghent_University). Archived from [the original](http://www.flw.ugent.be/masterplan) on December 18, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2012.

## References

- Norbert Poulain et al. (1991). *De universiteit bouwt. 1918-1940*. [Ghent](/source/Ghent), [Ghent University Library](/source/Ghent_University_Library).

## External links

- (in Dutch) [Official faculty website](http://www.flw.ugent.be/)

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