Benois O., Bodineau T., Presutti E. Large deviations in the van der Waals limit (65K, plain TeX) ABSTRACT. In this paper we extend the analysis in Benois, Bodineau, Butt\`a and Presutti (1997) by proving a strong large deviation principle for the empirical distribution of Ising spins in $d\ge 2$ dimensions when the interaction is determined by a Kac potential and the temperature is below the critical value.