2017 > 2018 Brochure

Flanders Fields. A place to remember.

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2017 Table of contents PASSCHENDAELE REMEMBERED

INTRODUCTION DISCOVER THE BATTLEFIELDS The terrible events of the year 1917 are engraved in our collective memory. Introduction > 3 Getting there and around > 46 A series of explosions created a huge man-made earthquake and soldiers Flanders Fields: 12 most visited sites + map > 4 The battlefields, accessible to all > 48 fought not only against the enemy but also against the mud. The Third WWI: time line > 6 Explore WWI outside the classroom > 48 Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, destroyed Organized battlefield tours > 49 the landscape and cost countless human lives. EVENTS Suggestions for car or coach itineraties 1917 Total war in Flanders/ for touroperators > 50 Now, approximately one hundred years later, Flanders invites visitors exhibitions and information points > 7 Hotels > 52 to remember the victims of the conflict - and what better place to do so ComingWorldRememberMe > 12 Youth accommodation > 58 than Flanders Fields. Many museums, events and exhibitions shed light Diary of other events > 14 Trade & press information > 63 on the various facets of the Great War: the military operations, trench warfare, political alliances, propaganda, etc. In addition, various art WORLD WAR I SITES exhibitions offer a truly individual, artistic view of the horrors of WWI. Ypres & surroundings > 26 Wherever you go in Flanders Fields, whether by car, bike or on foot, you Passchendaele/Zonnebeke > 32 come across the remnants and scars of the Great War. The region is Messines > 35 dotted with hundreds of monuments and graveyards, sometimes Heuvelland/Wijtschate > 36 counting no more than a few graves. Themed walking, biking and driving Poperinge > 38 tours guide you through this landscape bursting with reminders of the Diksmuide & surroundings > 40 Great War. There are even several ways for visitors to contribute to the Nieuwpoort > 43 commemoration. Other interesting sites in Flanders (Fields) & Brussels > 44 This “2017-2018 Brochure” guides you through the commemorative highlights in 2017 and 2018 and provides an overview of many of the region’s key memorial sites.

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

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Langemark-Poelkapelle Introduction Vleteren 11 Waregem 4 3 Memorial Museum 7 Talbot House 11 German Cemetery Langemark Passchendaele 1917 Poperinge 3 7 Yper 1 5 Kortrijk Zonnebeke 6 (Passchendaele) 2 Menen Wervik © Westtoer milo-profi© Heuvelland Messines

4 Tyne Cot Cemetery 8 Yser Tower Museum 12 Goose Foot complex & King Albert I Monument

4 6 April 1917 KLM © United States declares war

28 June 1914 April 1918 Assassination of Archduke German spring offensive. Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo Deraeve Collectie © 7 -14 June 1917 Major attack by the Battle of Messines Germans at Merkem and Kemmel.

28 July 1914 © Collectie Deraeve Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. 28 September 22 April 1915 - 11 November 1918 The final offensive. 4 August 1914 First use of chlorine gas by the German army in Langemark. Reinforced by the German army invades Belgium. 21 February 12 July 1917 Americans, a series of - 20 December 1916 United Kingdom declares war First use of mustard gas Allied offensives pushes on Germany. Battle of Verdun the Germans back. (France) 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1 July - 18 November 1916 19 October Battle of the Somme 24 - 25 June 1917 - 22 november 1914 22 April - 25 may 1915 (France) First shot of cannon First Battle of Ypres Lange Max Second Battle of Ypres 11 November 1918 Armistice. End of WWI at 11 o’clock in the morning.

31 July - 10 November 1917 Battle of Passchendaele/ Third battle of Ypres

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for Easter except holidays, public on Closed to am 4pm 10 Sunday: to 4pm 1pm and noon to am 12 9.30 to Saturday: Monday March: –31 November 16 to am 4pm 10 holidays: public and Sundays to 5 pm 1 pm noon, to am 12 9.30 to Saturday: Monday November –15 1 April Opening hours: Admission free Admission Access

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i Opening hours i Addresses Tuesday to Saturday: Kazemat 5 1.30 pm to 6 pm Site Bommenvrij, Individuals and small groups Schoolstraat 48 (< 10 participants) can attend 8900 Ieper without booking in advance. Workshops (1.5 hours) for groups Site Bommenvrij of more than 10 participants on Schoolstraat 48 Events request. 8620 Nieuwpoort

Admission Contact €5 (half of the proceeds go to +32 (0)58/62.39.29 charity) [email protected]

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COMINGWORLDREMEMBERME: FROM MARCH TO END OF 2018 INTRO LAND ART INSTALLATION VISITING THE LAND ART INSTALLATION OK

From 2014 to 2018, by moulding 600,000 sculptures out of In March 2018 the 600,000 figures of Admission Car park How to get there clay, thousands of people from across Flanders and the ComingWorldRememberMe will be set up in the Palingbeek There is no charge for admission There is a large car park at the The provincial park is easy to reach by rest of the world take part in the making of the installation park (Zillebeke) between two large works of art by Koen to the land art installation and the entrance to the park. There is space car (right to the car park), bus, ComingWorldRememberMe. Each and every sculpture Vanmechelen. In this way, the land art installation will provincial park. The park can be visited for cars and coaches. There are also and bicycle. From September 2017, represents one of the 600,000 victims who lost their lives spread out over no-man’s-land and The Bluff, site of one of freely by individual visitors and small toilets at the car park and there is a more information will be available due to WWI in Belgium. In this way, different generations the most intensive battles ever in Flanders. From April 2018 groups. Groups coming by coach are cafeteria nearby. about alternative mobility and and nationalities will be united in the commemoration. until the end of that year, the land art installation will be advised to book via the website. accessibility on www.cwrm.be and also Attend one of the workshops in Nieuwpoort or Ypres open to the public. At various spots along part of the walk The entire walk takes about two hours. Address: at the Ypres tourist information office. to make a sculpture. around the installation, you can listen to war poetry. You However, from the car park you can Palingbeekstraat 18, 8902 Zillebeke can end the walk on the observation bridge, also walk directly to the observation www.cwrm.be from where you will have a wonderful view of this bridge via the paved path. In that case, There will also be a second car park [email protected] impressive land art installation. the visit should take about 50 minutes. at the visitor centre of the Palingbeek Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Naturally, every visitor wants to view park. From there, it is a 30-minute the installation from the observation walk to the installation. bridge. On busy days, please limit your time on the bridge so that everyone Address: gets the opportunity to do so. Vaartstraat 7, 8902 Zillebeke

Access The walk runs through the provincial park via grassy paths, wooden boardwalks, and paved paths. Please take into account that in rainy weather the ground can get wet and muddy. The path running directly to the observation point is entirely paved.

12 13 APR 24 APR > 10 NOV 2017 Diary of other events 2017 Menin Gate, Ypres and ceremonies 2017-2018 RETURN OF THE MENIN GATE LIONS

30 AUG 2014 > 31 DEC 2019 In 1936, two large stone guardian lions were donated to the Australian JAN Rumbeke Castle War Memorial by the mayor of Ypres. The lions, carved from limestone, 2017 ALBERT I AND THE GREAT WAR were given to the Australian government as a gesture of friendship. Memorial War Australian © EXHIBITION The lions had originally stood on plinths on either side of the Menin Gate at Ypres. This gate was one of only two entries into the medieval INTRO OK

fortified city. It was through this gate that Allied soldiers marched to the Events battlefields of the Ypres salient between 1914 and 1918. For many years, In the heart of the beautiful provincial Sterrebos domain, one of the the lions have been on display at the entrance to the Australian War oldest Renaissance castles of the country can be found, thus providing Memorial in Canberra. From April to November 2017, the lions will return the perfect location for the “Albert I and the Great War” exhibition. temporarily to Ypres, where they will be on display on the bridge by This audiovisual exhibition features rare pictures, videos and audio the Menin Gate. A small exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum will material highlighting the Belgian story during WWI, taking you on a explain the history of the lions. journey through the fascinating life and reign of the famous Belgian king Albert I, illustrating that a ruler could be more than merely a i Contact: Ypres tourist office national symbol. Throughout his life, Albert remained stubbornly faithful ++32/(0)57.239.220 to his subjects and proved that he was also a master diplomat. From [email protected] the end of October 2016 an additional segment will be open, focusing 25 APR 2017, 6 am on diplomacy during WWI, as a (world) war is not only decided on the Buttes New British Cemetery, Zonnebeke p.33 battlefield. Matters such as diplomacy and economy played a big part ANZAC DAY in the evolutions of the decade. The occupied Brave Little Belgium DAWN SERVICE stood its ground among the superpowers and even went on to claim an important role. Visitor groups can choose from a number of attractive all-in formulas. A guided visit can, for example, be followed by a brunch, dessert plate or a nocturne with a drink in the castle. For the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, WWI began on 25 April 1915, when the troops landed on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli. ANZAC Day pays tribute to all the Australian and New Zealand soldiers Address Opening hours who fought during WWI. ANZAC Day commemorations begin in Rumbeke Castle 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Zonnebeke bright and early at 6 am with the traditional Dawn Service 8800 Roeselare Closed on Mondays and public holidays at Buttes New British Cemetery at Polygon Wood, where many soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were laid to rest. The ceremony is Website Entrance followed by a breakfast in ‘OC ‘t Zonnerad’; reservations for breakfast www.albert14-18.be Adults: €6 (€5) can be made via https://webshopzonnebeke.recreatex.be Discount price: €4 (from February 2017). In 2017, the ceremony will conclude with the

planting of the first trees in the Wood of Peace, which will be located © Henk Deleu next to Polygon Wood. 29 JAN 2017 > 11 NOV 2017 JAN Museum at the Yser p.40 i www.passchendaele2017.org 2017 WHEN DEATH CAME FROM ABOVE [email protected] EXHIBITION 25 APR 2017, 11:15 am New Zealand Memorial, Messines p.35 When the First World War broke out, the aviation was still in its infancy. ANZAC DAY But the war stimulated its development. Reconnaissance planes and zeppelins were replaced by real fighter planes and bombers. The pilots also enjoyed a high status. Those who would get the upper hand in multiple fights, would be awarded the title ‘ace’. In this exhibition the This is a yearly ceremony. The Last Post will be blown at 11:15. war in the sky is shown by means of many objects. © collectie© Philippe Oosterlinck

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© Rene Matton 17 30 JUL 2017 (TBC) p.32 19–20 AUGUST 2017 Ypres AUG Zonnebeke OFFICIAL COMMEMORATION THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES 2017 THEMED WEEKEND ‘The Long Road to Passchendaele AND FOUR YEARS OF WAR IN THE YPRES SALIENT INTRO OK On 30 July the British government, the city of Ypres, and the Belgian and Flemish governments hold an official commemoration for the four years To break the front, the Allied troops launched a major attack on 31 July of war in the Ypres Salient, the third battle of Ypres included. There will 1917. The themed weekend ‘The Long Road to Passchendaele’, organised be a special Last Post at the Menin Gate at the occasion of the 100-year by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, commemorates this effort. anniversary of the third Battle of Ypres at 8 pm with a live projection The weekend starts with a memorial service at the Scottish monument of the ceremony on screens on the Grote Markt. There will be also a at Frezenberg in Zonnebeke. At the chateau grounds, an international multimedia projection with live music/reading & poetry on ‘The Battles tattoo with pipe bands present an impressive sound and light of the Ypres Salient 1914-18’ on the Market Square outside the Cloth Hall spectacle on the evening of 19 August. Over the weekend, visitors can at 10 pm. witness several themed activities. The focus is on living history, giving visitors a sense of stepping back in time.

i www.visitypres.be © Imperial War Museum [email protected] i www.passchendaele2017.org [email protected] 31 JUL 2017 (TBC) Zonnebeke/Passendale OFFICIAL COMMEMORATION BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE Frezenberg, Zonnebeke p.34 19 AUGUST 2017 CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE AT THE SCOTTISH MONUMENT The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, started on 31 July 1917 with the jump-off of the British troops. During the preparatory artillery barrage, the Allies fired no fewer than 4.2 million shells, which turned the battlefield into a swamp. The Battle of From 31 July to 20 August 1917, three out of four large Scottish units, Passchendaele was a true massacre, with more than half a million the Ninth Division with the First (and only) South African Brigade, the casualties and a territorial gain of just eight kilometres. The battle soon Fifteenth Division, and the Fifty-first Division, were almost became a myth and still has a significant symbolic value today. simultaneously engaged in the Battle of Passchendaele. On 19 August, all Scottish and South African casualties will be officially On 31 July, the British government, the community of Zonnebeke and the commemorated at the Scottish monument at Frezenberg in Zonnebeke. Belgian and Flemish governments hold an official commemoration at Tyne Cot Cemetery in memory of those who died in the Passchendaele i www.passchendaele2017.org region. There will be live capitation and Living History event at the [email protected] chateau grounds of the Zonnebeke mansion. 8-11 SEPTEMBER i www.passchendaele2017.org SEP Langemark-Poelkapelle p.31 [email protected] 2017 CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION WEEKEND GUYNEMER

31 JULY 5.50 am Welsh National Memorial Hagebos, Langemark p.29  20 SEPTEMBER OPENING CEREMONY THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES-PASSCHENDAELE Hooge Crater p.30 AUSTRALIAN COMMEMORATION BATTLE OF THE MEENSEWEG Events Events 21, 22, 23 SEPTEMBER 2017 Grote Markt, Ypres 31 JULY PM  Artillery Wood Cemetery, Poperinge p.28 YPRES MEMORIAL TATTOO CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD OF THE POETS HEDD WYN AND FRANCIS LEDWIGE i Ypres tourist office ++32/(0)57.239.220 [email protected]

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This peaceful Australian ceremony takes place at Buttes New British Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnebeke is a silent but important witness to the Cemetery in Polygon Wood. The cemetery is the last resting place of Battle of Passchendaele. With nearly 12,000 graves and 35,000 names of more than 500 Australians, of whom more than half have never been soldiers with no known grave, Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Common- identified. Many were in the Fifth Australian Division, as the current loca- wealth cemetery in the world. tion of the cemetery is where, exactly 100 years ago, the Fifth Australian On 14 October, the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 and the com- Division conquered Polygon Wood after a fierce battle. munity of Zonnebeke will hold a moment of silence and reflection at Tyne Cot Cemetery to commemorate the many victims. Participants can i www.passchendaele2017.org register via www.passchendaele2017.org to be part of this unique and [email protected] powerful event at this symbolic location.

p.33 i www.passchendaele2017.org Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke 26 SEPTEMBER 2017 [email protected] WOOD OF PEACE 14 OCTOBER 2017 Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke CONCERT BY TOM BARMAN AND GUESTS

Events In 2017, a tree will be planted for each fallen soldier with a known grave Tom Barman, the charismatic frontman of the world-famous Belgian at the two British cemeteries at Polygon Wood (Buttes New British Cem- band dEUS will, for the occasion, collaborate with a number of different etery and Polygon Wood Cemetery). There will be two planting days: 26 artists to commemorate the Battle of Passchendaele. Barman was asked September and 12 October. In addition, a monument to all the missing to work together with a British/Commonwealth artist or band to create soldiers will be erected in a central area in the new park. In the initial new work centred on the theme of WWI. phase, all descendants of the fallen soldiers can register via www.pass- chendaele1917.org. In a second phase, the public at large will be invited i Admission: tbc to actively contribute to the Wood of Peace by linking up with a fallen Tickets via www.gonewest.be © Anton Coene soldier for whom no next of kin have registered.

The Wood of Peace will keep the memory of those who lost their lives 10 NOVEMBER 2017 during WWI alive for many generations to come. NOV Crest Farm Memorial / Passchendaele Church, Zonnebeke p.33 2017 PASSCHENDAELE CEREMONY – CANADIAN CEREMONY i www.passchendaele2017.org OF REMEMBRANCE [email protected] 12 OCTOBER 2017 5 PM OKT German Military Cemetery Menenwald 2017 CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION MENENWALD 10 November 1917 marks the day that Canadian troops ended the Battle of Passchendaele by capturing the ruins of the village. The Passchen- daele Ceremony commemorates the end of the battle and all casual- ties, communities, and countries involved. The ceremony starts with a 12 OCTOBER 2017 Zonnebeke p.32 subdued reflection at the Crest Farm Canadian Memorial, followed by a NEW ZEALAND CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE torchlight parade along the Canadalaan. The parade follows the path of Events the last hundred metres of the attack and ends in Passchendaele. After On 12 October 1917, the New Zealand Division advanced to take the the ceremony, all participants will be invited to an open-air reception, Bellevue spur. The result was devastating: 2,700 casualties, including 846 followed by a concert in the church. dead, in less than four hours, for a terrain gain of less than 400 metres. That day has been remembered ever since as the most tragic day in the i www.passchendaele2017.org modern history of New Zealand. [email protected] Exactly one hundred years later, special ceremonies, involving young- sters, at Tyne Cot Cemetery and at ‘s Graventafel will remind us of this Menin Gate Ypres p.27 11 NOVEMBER 2017 11 AM sacrifice. ARMISTICE SPECIAL LAST POST 11 NOVEMBER 2017 2 PM i www.passchendaele2017.org Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke p.34 [email protected] BLACK WATCH CORNER CEREMONY

20 21 p.32 11 NOVEMBER 2017 3 PM 23 APR 2018 > 30 AUG 2018 Tyne Cot Cemetery, Cemetery Saint Charles De Potyze, Provincial Courthouse Bruges German Military Cemetery Langemark WWI, THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH SEA CEREMONIES EXHIBITION

The German Marinekorps Flandern had established a well-oiled war machine in the coastal area between the front line and the Dutch

border. Given the region’s exceptional strategic importance as a base RoyalMuseumsGreenwich © 12 NOVEMBER 2017 Zonnebeke/Passchendaele of operations for naval and aerial battles in the North Sea, the German ALEX DECOTEAU RUN occupying forces installed a vast network of ports, artillery batteries, bunkers, and airfields in this area. Operating from the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge, they sank no fewer than 2,550 allied ships. Eventually, this intense submarine warfare partly triggered the American decision to Take part in a race that runs along pathways through the historic bat- join WWI. tlefield, as a tribute to all those who fell in the Battle of Passchendaele. Using historical artefacts and illustrations never seen before, this exhi- A graveside service will commemorate the Indigenous Canadian Alex bition aims to shed light on the little-known story of the war at sea and Wuttunee Decoteau, who participated in the 5,000 metre race at the the essential role of Bruges as the nerve centre of the entire operation. 1912 Olympics. i Address: Markt 3, Bruges

i www.passchendaele2017.org © City of Edmonton Archives Contact [email protected] [email protected] 25 APRIL 2018, 6 am APR Buttes New British Cemetery, Zonnebeke p.33 ANZAC DAY 17 FEB 2018 > 15 AUG 2018 2018 FEB In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres p.26 DAWN SERVICE 2018 TRACES OF WAR: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR EXHIBITION © Henk Deleu

When the First World War ended, the Westhoek region had been com- For the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, WWI began on 25 pletely destroyed. The original residents returned after the war. Chinese April 1915, when the troops landed on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli. labourers and German prisoners of war cleared most of the traces of Every year, ANZAC Day pays tribute to the Australian and New Zealand destruction: trenches were closed up, bomb craters were filled in, and soldiers who fought during WWI. ANZAC Day commemorations begin in military infrastructure was dismantled. The farmers returned too and Zonnebeke bright and early at 6 am with the traditional Dawn Service started to work in their fields again. The material evidence became part at Buttes New British Cemetery at Polygon Wood, where many soldiers of the archaeological soil archive. from Australia and New Zealand were laid to rest. The ceremony is fol- lowed by a breakfast in ‘OC ‘t Zonnerad’; reservations for breakfast (€5) i www.inflandersfields.be can be made via https://webshopzonnebeke.recreatex.be.

Events Information: 21 APR 2018 > 15 DEC 2018 APR Villa Zonnedaele, Chateau grounds Zonnebeke p.32 i www.passchendaele.be 2018 EXHIBITION: THE FINAL OFFENSIVE / THE YANKS ARE COMING [email protected]

INTRO APR 2018 > NOV 2018 OK In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres p.26 THE OFFENSIVES OF 2018: This temporary exhibition sheds light on the overall story of the last THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE AND FINAL OFFENSIVE

year of the war and the final offensive in which the Americans played HISTORICAL EXHIBITION Events an important role. The main focus is on the Flanders Army Group, in which British, French, US, and Belgian troops fought together to liberate Belgium. The exhibition includes material on the Belgians who liberated Zonnebeke and Passchendaele and on the significance of the fresh US troops. The exhibition starts with an opening weekend on 21 and 22 April, with numerous themed activities such as battlefield tours and the annual Living History event.

i www.passchendaele.be [email protected] Admission free Opening hours: open daily from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm

22 23 30 JUNE 2018 AUGUST 2018 JUN THE WATERFRONT AUG Ypres, Nieuwpoort, Veurne, Diksmuide, Poperinge and Dranouter 2018 PERFORMANCES 2018 THE SUMMER OF ‘18 CONCERTS From the harbour channel of Zeebrugge to the harbour channel of Ostend, over a distance of 26.9 km, monumental performances will be During the summer of 2018, the GoneWest concerts will be grafted created on or around the water in Zeebrugge, Blankenberge, De Haan, onto existing local, summer events in the Westhoek area. The series of Bredene, and Ostend, culminating in the harbour channel of Ostend. concerts will end in a grand finale on the market square in Ypres on As a participatory event, Waterfront above all wants to focus people’s Saturday 25 August 2018. attention on the future, on hope, reconciliation, forgiveness, and a new start for humankind. i Free access www.gonewest.be © Westtoer i Free access www.gonewest.be 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 SEP Zonnebeke Events 30 JUN > 2 SEP 2018 2018 CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE, CARABINIERS-GRENADIERS Poperinge HEALING EXHIBITION, ART, MOBILE APPLICATION The great Allied offensive that started on 28 September 1918 ended the AND EXPERIENCE ROUTE First World War. On that day the Belgians, under the command of King Albert I, together with British and French troops, attacked the Germans Poperinge concludes the WWI commemorations with a message of at the Ypres Salient. The Belgian Carabiniers-Grenadiers advanced into hope and consolation. During the summer of 2018, healing features as a and gained control over the ruins of the village of Passchendaele after central theme. Exhibition Not in Khaki tells the strory of the wide range heavy fighting. Afterwards, the offensive advanced to Moorslede and of women, ranging from nurses to prostitutes, that provided the world Roeselare. with comfort, while contemporary artist Chantal Pollier enhances the Exactly 100 years later, their efforts will be remembered at the church in exhibition with a selection of artful statements. In collaboration with art Passchendaele. festival Watou a comfort route has also been developed taking you to consoling pavilions decorated with healing art and poetry. i www.passchendaele.be [email protected] i Address Website Gasthuiskapel www.poperinge14-18.be 10 NOVEMBER 2018 Gasthuisstraat 1A Opening hours NOV Crest Farm Memorial, Passchendaele Church p.33 Poperinge Daily from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. 2018 PASSCHENDAELE CEREMONY – CANADIAN MEMORIAL SERVICE Contact (closed on Mondays) + 32 (0)57 34 66 76 [email protected] 10 November 1917 marks the day that Canadian troops ended the Battle of Passchendaele by capturing the ruins of the village. The Passchen- 1 JUL 2018 > 31 MAY 2019 JUL Westfront Nieuwpoort p.43 daele Ceremony commemorates the end of the battle and all casual- 2018 ARCHITECTURE AND WAR ties, communities, and countries involved. The ceremony starts with a subdued reflection at the Crest Farm Canadian Memorial, followed by a Architecture and war, or creation and destruction, both seem like direct torchlight parade along the Canadalaan. The parade follows the path of oppostites. However… they are als both inherently linked. Whatever could the last hundred metres of the attack and ends in Passchendaele. After not be renovated after the war, had to be rebuilt - or could something the ceremony, all participants will be invited to an open-air reception, new perhaps be created instead? Arras, Ypres, Diksmuide and Nieuw- followed by a concert in the church. poort achieved historic status as Northern front cities, althought all were almost completely destroyed. The same goes for the surrounding i www.passchendaele.be outskirts, plains farms and villages, not to mention the damage caused [email protected] by the saltwater inundations. A hundred years later, the consequences are barely visible, thanks to both local citizens and architects. Still visible, 11 NOVEMBER 2018 on the contrary, are some authentic examples of war architecture. The Menin Gate, Ypres p.27 bunkers near Ramskapelle and the protected monuments of the Du- ARMISTICE REMEMBRANCE © Westtoer vetorr and Bommenvrij, for example, are few of the very last remainders. The Armistice is commemorated each year in Ypres with an extensive i Website programme of events. Highlights include the Special Last Post ceremony www.westfrontnieuwpoort.be at the Menin Gate at 11 am and the ‘The Great War Remembered’ concert in St Martin’s Cathedral at 4.30 pm. Events

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24 25 PLACES TO VISIT

On the following pages are some of the different places to visit in the key towns and those places that are of specific interest for certain nations and regions are marked with their flag.

LIST OF FLAGS

Commonwealth flag Irish flag German flag Canadian flag

British flag French flag Belgian flag Australian flag

Scottish flag Indian flag American flag New Zealand flag

Welsh flag

YPRES & THE MENIN GATE AND THE LAST POST SURROUNDINGS The most famous Commonwealth War Memorial bears the names of 54,896 i Website Throughout the war, Ypres and the Ypres Salient, soldiers who were reported missing in the Ypres Salient between the outbreak of www.lastpost.be the area around Ypres, was the scene of the the war and 15 August 1917. Due to a lack of space, after that date names were heaviest battles. These fierce battles have left listed at Tyne Cot. An exception was made for Australian and Canadian soldiers their mark on the landscape around the city. who were missing in action until the end of the war. There are no New Zealand names, as their missing are commemorated in cemeteries near to where they www.visitypres.be died. Every night at eight o’clock sharp, the resounding bugle call of the volunteers of the Ypres Last Post Association, who are members of the Ypres Voluntary Fire Brigade, rings out as a tribute to the fallen under the Menin Gate. The Menin Gate will celebrate her 90th anniversary in 2017. IN FLANDERS FIELDS MUSEUM

INDIAN FORCES MEMORIAL NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY RAMPARTS CEMETERY The permanent exhibition focuses on the personal stories of ordinary people and establishes a link to the landscape of WWI in Flanders Fields. More than 2,000 original objects and documents are on display and a new scenography Sites highlights the most recent museum applications, including touch screens, interactive poppy bracelets, video projections, and This memorial behind the The New Irish Farm Cemetery English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh soundscapes. In addition, visitors can climb the bell tower for a wonderful view of what was once a completely Menin Gate is dedicated to the 130,000 opened at the outbreak of the Third soldiers along with Canadian, devastated region. soldiers of the Indian Forces who Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). It was New Zealand and Australian soldiers served in Flanders during the Great named after a nearby farm. During are buried here. Also in this beautiful War. 9,000 members of the Indian the final German advance from April cemetery are ten Maoris, a working Address Opening hours Price Expeditionary Force died as casualties to May 1918, new graves were added. party of the New Zealand Maori Cloth Hall 1 April - 15 November: Adults: €9.00 in France and Flanders, not only due At the time of the Armistice, it con- (Pioneer) Battalion who were shelled Grote Markt 34, Mon - Sun: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m Youth (ages 19-25): €5.00 to the nature of their injuries in battle tained 73 graves but was then greatly near Ypres on 31 December 1917. 8900 Ypres 16 November - 31 March: Children (ages 7-18): €4.00 but also due to the severe winter enlarged with more than 4,500 new Tue - Sun: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Children under 7: free weather conditions they were graves. i Address Contact 25 December & 1 January: Closed Groups (min. 15): €7.00 exposed to. Lille Gate, Ypres +32 (0)57 239 220 Schools (min. 15): €4.00 i Address [email protected] Suppl. to visit the bell tower: €2.00 Briekestraat, Ieper Groups must book at least Website 14 days in advance. www.inflandersfields.be 26 27 HILL 60 & CATERPILLAR CRATER

Hill 60 was captured by the 11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment SAINT CHARLES DE POTYZE on 7 June 1917 during the Battle of Messines, when two huge mines were blown: one on the hill itself, with a The largest French military charge of more than 53,000 lbs, was cemetery in Belgium contains 4,200 blown by the 1st Australian Tunnelling graves, including 69 Islamic tombs. Company, whose memorial is on Hill A Breton Pieta by the Sculptor J. Fréour 60. They also blew the neighbouring is located at the front of the site, Caterpillar Crater (width 80m, mourning over the lost dead. depth 15m). i Address i Address Zonnebeekseweg, Ypres Zwarteleenstraat, Zillebeke

Opening hours WELSH NATIONAL THE BROODING SOLDIER, GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY from dusk to dawn MEMORIAL PARK SINT-JULIAAN Langemark Langemark Langemark Entrance free access © Westtoer © Westtoer © Westtoer ARTILLERY WOOD CEMETERY ST. GEORGE’S ESSEX FARM/SITE GRAVE OF POETS HEDD WYN MEMORIAL CHURCH JOHN MCCRAE & FRANCIS LEDWIGE The red dragon, built on a dolmen (in Welsh “cromlech”), stands The Brooding Soldier, a 33 Behind its monumental entrance This Anglican Church was built to A total of 1,185 soldiers are in the middle of an area that was foot high granite monument building lie some 44,300 German There are many Welsh commemorate the dead, to serve as buried at Essex Farm, including one of conquered by Welsh troops on 31 representing a grieving Canadian soldiers, half of whom are buried in a burials on this cemetery, including that a meeting place for visiting relatives, the youngest casualties of the war: July 1917. It looks in the direction of soldier, in memory of the 2,000 mass grave. Over 3,000 cadets and of the famous poet hedd Wyn. Also the and to keep alive the memory of the Valentine Joe Strudwick was just 15 Passchendaele, the village that would soldiers who died in 1915 as a result student volunteers are among the Irish poet Francis Ledwige is buried sacrifices made in Ypres and the Ypres years old when he was killed. Next to only be taken three months later at of a gas attack in the Second Battle dead, which is why the cemetery is here. Salient. the cemetery, you can still see the the expense of half a million victims. of Ypres. also called the Studentenfriedhof. concrete bunkers in which a dressing The surrounding park is dedicated to i Address i Website station was housed. It was in one of all Welsh people involved in the Great i Address i Address Poezelstraat, Boezinge www.stgeorgesmemorialchurchypres.com these primitive ‘dug-outs’ that the War, both soldiers and civilians. Brugseweg Klerkenstraat 64

Canadian military doctor John McCrae Langemark-Poelkapelle Poelkapelle Sites wrote his world-famous poem i Address ‘In Flanders Fields’ at the beginning Boezingestraat 158 of May 1915. Langemark-Poelkapelle

i Address Diksmuideseweg, Ypres

28 29 HOOGE CRATER PRIVATE MUSEUM Zillebeke

The Hooge Crater Museum owes its name to a pair of historical events that took place during the Great War. Until the start of WWI, the ‘t Hooghe castle stood on top of the ‘t Hooghe hill in Zillebeke. During the war, the castle that served as the British HQ, was totally destroyed. In 1915, the British blew up a number of tunnels, which created a large crater to the north of the castle. During the 1920s, a chapel BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY was built nearby in memory of those killed in WWI. Following renovation works, it was sold to a private individ- This cemetery, just outside ual who amassed a valuable collection Ypres, is one of the largest British of weapons, uniforms and equipment YORKSHIRE TRENCH GUYNEMER PAVILION ENTRY POINTS YPRES SALIENT cemeteries in the Westhoek. Amongst from the four different armies that others, it holds 20 Indian graves. took part in WWI. Among the most Bedford House Cemetery stands in striking items on display are the Authentic restored trenches just The Guynemer Pavilion provides From October 1914 to October 1918, what was once the park of Rosen- life-sized tableaux that show what behind entry point North. In the first a unique and fascinating opportunity the battlefield of the First World War dael Castle, which the British troops daily life during the war was like. days of the Third Battle of Ypres, the to discover the war in the air during was located a mile or two from the renamed ‘Bedford House’ during WWI. Today, in the former local schoolhouse, 38th Welsh Division played a large part the First World War. There is a special centre of Ypres. The trenches described The castle served as a headquarter there is a themed café where you can in the sector. focus on the extraordinary life of the a curve from north to south around and as a medical aid post. Several admire a collection of decorated shell outstanding French pilot Georges Ypres. No fewer than fifty bloody small cemeteries were started in the casings (trench art). i Address Guynemer, who was involved in more battles were fought in that notorious castle grounds. The magnificent Bargiestraat than 600 aerial combats, survived Ypres Salient. Three entry points along garden architecture makes Bedford i Address Ypres being shot down seven times, and the Ypres Salient inform you about the House Cemetery a unique WWI site. Hooge Crater Museum achieved 53 victories. On Monday 11 events along the Ypres Salient. Today’s Meenseweg 467, September, sadly, he crashed between landscape is shown as a witness of the i Address Zillebeke 8902 WELSH CEMETERY the British and German lines, near the past, 100 years ago, in a historical film, Rijselseweg, Ypres Poelkapelle cemetery. The exhibition three walking routes, a digital applica- Contact also looks more generally at aviation tion, and a cycling route that connects 32 (0)57 46 84 46 Up to the 3rd Battle of Ypres the during the First World War and its the three points. In point North a cemetery lay in no man’s land between considerable significance. Text and number of portraits of war poets are COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION Website the two lines. As there were no troops images will expertly tell the story, from presented as the Canadian doctor John www.hoogecrater.com here, it was less shelled which made the use of aviation for reconnaissance Mc Crae and Irishman Francis Ledwige. There are many other cemeteries and hold a permanent place on the sites of it ideal for a cemetery once the battle to its use for bombing enemy memorials in The Ypres Salient. the CWGC, you will find the individual Opening hours had passed over it. The site is also positions. The Pavilion’s showpiece will i Address After the war, the British government graves of soldiers from the four Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. known as Caesar’s Nose as there was a be a replica of the Morane-Saulnier Entry point East: Sites decided not to repatriate the British corners of the former British Empire Sunday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. curly shape in the German frontline. Type L (Parasol). Hooge Crater museum view p.x Sites dead, but to have them buried on - British, New Zealanders, Australians, The 38th (Welsh) Division buried 23 Belgian soil. The impressive cemeteries Canadians, South Africans and also soldiers here. It was used until the i Address Entry point North: of the Commonwealth War Graves troops from India and the Caribbean. following November.The cemetery Brugsesweg 126 Kleine Poezelstraat, 8904 Boezinge Commission (CWGC) are characterised The CWGC celebrates its 100th birthday contains 68 First World War burials. Poelkapelle by long rows of white memorial stones in 2017. The occasion will be marked Entry point South: embedded in the landscape. In the with special events that will be an- i Address e-mail Palingbeekstraat, 8902 Zillebeke shadow of the Cross of Sacrifice and nounced later on its website. Moortelweg [email protected] the Stone of Remembrance, which Boezinge Website i More information about other cemeteries on www.cwgc.org www.guynemerpaviljoen.be

30 31 PASSCHENDAELE/ POLYGON WOOD

ZONNEBEKE Polygon Wood is a large The name Zonnebeke probably doesn’t sound wood 1.6 kilometres south of the very familiar, but almost everyone has heard of village of Zonnebeke, which was its neighbouring village: Passendale completely devastated in the (Passchendaele). It was here that, in 1917, the First World War. The wood was Allied army fought for several months in a cleared by Commonwealth troops at desperate bid to break the German line. They the end of October 1914, given up on soon began referring to the village as 3 May 1915, taken again at the end of ‘Passion-dale’: the valley of suffering. September 1917 by Australian troops, evacuated in the Battles of the Lys, www.passchendaele.be and finally retaken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 28 September 1918. There you will find a burial ground named Buttes New British Cemetery with the New Zealand Memorial, which The Memorial Museum of Passchendaele 1917 commemorates 383 officers and men of the New Zealand Division. On top of the ‘butte’ (hill) you will find the The Memorial Museum Passchendaele War, with more than half a million The Memorial Museum Passchendaele Memorial of the 5th Australian Division. 1917 presents the historic story of the casualties for a territorial gain of just 1917 combines the interactive design of In Polygon Wood you can still see the First World War in a poignant and eight kilometres. ‘Passchendaele’ not a modern museum with an exceptional remains of several shelters. Each year vivid way, with a particular emphasis only became a concept in the history opportunity to experience the dugouts on ANZAC Day (25 April), the efforts of on the Battle of Passchendaele. This of the First World War, it also became and trenches. An intense experience the ANZAC soldiers are commemorated battle in 1917 is known as one of the a symbol of the great futility of the that will enrich your knowledge of the during a service called the ‘Dawn most horrific battles of the First World violence of war in all its horror. battle sites in the area. i Address © Westtoer Address Website Price Lange dreve, Zonnebeke Memorial Museum www.passchendaele.be Adults: € 8.50 Passchendaele 1917 Children under 7: free NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL AT CREST FARM Berten Pilstraat 5/A Opening hours Students: €5 ’S GRAVENTAFEL 85TH CANADIAN MEMORIAL CANADIAN MEMORIAL 8980 Zonnebeke Daily: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Groups (min. 15 persons): € 6.50 (Last entry 4:30 p.m.) students € 4 Contact 16 December - 31 January Closed Groups must book in advance This memorial commemo- This marks the place where +32 (0)51 77 04 41 rates the New Zealand Division’s the Canadian Corps saw fierce [email protected] participation in the Battle of Brood- fighting during the Second Battle of seinde on 4 October 1917. This attack by Passchendaele and won possession ANZAC forces successfully pushed of the high ground at Crest Farm. forward the allied trench line in the early part of the Passchendaele i Address TYNE COT CEMETERY offensive but was followed by the © Westtoer Canadalaan 37 AND VISITOR CENTRE inadequately prepared attack of Zonnebeke Sites 12 October 1917. This monument was the first one to be erected in the region. It This is the largest Commonwealth War i Address honours the memory of the 85th Graves Commission military cemetery 's Graventafelstraat Canadian infantry (Nova Scotia) in continental Europe, with almost Zonnebeke Battallion which suffered heavy losses 12,000 tombstones. The back wall of during the Third Battle of Ypres at the the graveyard is inscribed with the end of October 1917. names of 34,957 missing soldiers who fell in the Battle of Passchendaele and i Address later. Passendalestraat Zonnebeke i Address Vijfwegestraat Zonnebeke

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37 Sites EXECUTION SITE/ TALBOT HOUSE: EVERY MAN’S CLUB DEATH CELLS © Poperinge Talbot House © Lijssenthoek archives Poperinge During the Great War the © Micha+1/2l Depestele During WWI Poperinge, or “Pop”, was courtyard of Poperinge Town Hall the town situated directly behind the was used as an execution site. Several front lines. It was a place of temporary British soldiers faced the firing squad camps and hospitals where soldiers here. Today, this is a symbolic site for came to rest or to be medically taken reflection and remembrance. Visitors care of. The troops had, amongst to the death cells are confronted with others, shops, restaurants, hotels, a video image of a soldier waiting to pubs, cinemas and theatres at their The best-known soldiers’ club of the Great War comprises a garden and be shot at dawn and can read graffiti disposal. But the peaceful atmosphere various rooms, including the chapel, the kitchen, and the hall. A tablet application left by prisoners. was misleading as the city was guides the visitor through the museum and the house. Besides a museum, Talbot exposed to daily bombardment. house is still the Every Man’s Club it has always been. Visitors can enjoy a cup of i Address tea in the canteen or book a room and spend the night. Tourism Poperinge www.toerismepoperinge.be Grote Markt 1 8970 Poperinge

Contact +32 (0)57 34 66 76 [email protected]

i Address Website Lijssenthoek Cemetery www.toerismepoperinge.be Visitor Centre Boescheepseweg 35A Opening hours 8970 Poperinge Daily 6 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Contact Price © Kris Jacobs +32 (0)57 34 66 76 © Kris Jacobs Free access [email protected] Tour guides: Book a guide at the LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY & VISITOR CENTRE i Address Price tourist office Website Talbot House Adults: €8.00 Sites www.lijssenthoek.be Gasthuisstraat 43 Children: €5.00 Sites From 1915 to 1920 the hamlet of French and German soldiers too. It 8970 Poperinge Groups: €6.00 Lijssenthoek (Boescheepseweg) was also holds the grave of the only Opening hours (advance bookings only) the site of the largest evacuation woman to be buried in a CWGC Open all year Contact Schools: €5.00 hospital along the Ypres Salient and cemetery, a nurse, Nellie Spindler. Daily: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Tel +32 (0)57 33 32 28 Trade: €6.00 is now the second largest common- The Visitor Centre, situated next to the [email protected] Tour guides wealth cemetery in Belgium. Today, cemetery, offers information on this Price There are no guided tours, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery bears unique site, including details about Free access Website but for groups a general introduction witness to more than four years of daily life in the hospital and the Tour guides www.talbothouse.be to Talbot House can be provided on warfare, with the graves of 10,784 creation of the cemetery. Book a guide at the Tourist Office Opening hours request (advance notice required). soldiers mainly British but also some Fully accessible to disabled visitors Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday Closed

38 39 © Westtoer 40 Ypres and Ploegsteert. Ploegsteert. Ypres and to coast the at from area Nieuwpoort entire the over view have aunique you Fields’, ‘Flanders above feet 273 terrace, rooftop the on hall panorama From the country?’ of of lives? the remains our remains What ‘What slogan: the with of peace message the emphasises It emancipation. Flemish on as well as WWI www.aandeijzer.be Website [email protected] 0286 50 +32 (0)51 Contact Diksmuide 8600 Ijzerdijk 49 Address MUSEUM ON THE YSER (YSER TOWER) TOWER) (YSER YSER THE ON MUSEUM The museum focuses on the Belgian-German military confrontation during during confrontation military Belgian-German the on focuses museum The

Christmas holiday Christmas the after weeks three 1 &2January; December; 26 &31 25, 24, Closed: from a.m. 10 open holidays public and Weekends p.m.) 4:30 entry (last -5p.m. 9 a.m. March -31 1 October 17:30) entry (last -18:00 09:00 September -30 1 April Opening hours

www.flandersfields.be armistice. the after ly complete rebuilt was centre town old The advance. German the stopped finally troops Belgian and French losses huge with where in 1914, Yser of the Battle famous of the scene the was It WWI. during to rubble reduced was Diksmuide surroundings & Diksmuide €25.00/hour Guides free -7: 7-17: €2.50 Ages €6.00Adults: GROUPS (min. 20) free -7: 7-17: €2.50 Ages €8.00Adults: INDIVIDUALS Price

- of the story to be told. told. to be story of the tour, sides in the both cluded allowing in is also trench Belgian of the vicinity immediate in the bunker A German Trench infamous the of Death. of story the to discover visitors allow objects original ahundred over and of film footage, acollection pictures, life-size applications, interactive with centre adjoiningThe interpretation World War. First of the trench Belgian remaining only This is the TRENCH OF DEATHTRENCH

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- The Grieving Parents. Created by by Created Parents. Grieving The sculpture, is amoving cemetery display the On at soldiers. German 25,638 some place of final resting is the cemetery German this forest, i VLADSLO GERMAN MILITARY GERMAN VLADSLO CEMETERY www.klm-mra.be Website dodengang[email protected] 44 53 50 +32 (0)51 Contact Diksmuide 8600 IJzerdijk 65 Address www.facebook.com/Dodengang

Known as Vladslo, in Praetbos in Praetbos Vladslo, as Known

GROUPS (min. 15): €2.00 free 7: under €4.00Adults: Price 3January and December 25 Closed between p.m.) 3:30 entry (last -4p.m. a.m. 9:30 Tuesday &Friday March -31 November 16 p.m.) 4:30 entry (last -5p.m. a.m. 10 Daily November: -15 1 April Opening hours war. in the killed was who Peter, son old 18-year for her love and grief of personal out artist, pressionist ex amajor German Kollwitz, Käthe i Praatbos, Diksmuide Praatbos, Address

- 41 KÄTHE KOLLWITZ MUSEUM Koekelare

The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz is a world-famous work of art that symbolises the terrible suffering that war inflicted on the German military cemetery at Vladso. More of her work can be seen in the nearby Käthe Kollwitz Tower in Koekelare, which houses seven of her graphic works. Her art is characterised by a deep compassion for all victims of poverty, exploitation and oppression. Her pacifism and abhorrence of war can be clearly felt throughout her works. A museum guide is available.

i Address Käthe Kollwitz Tower Sint-Maartensplein 15, Koekelare 8680

Contact + 32 (0)51 61 04 94 Nieuwpoort Website www.koekelare.be ‘Town by the water’, the current motto a similar idea shortly before. The Brains rather than blood had gained a of Nieuwpoort was even more true Belgians opened the sluices of Nieu- decisive victory, with water as an ally. during the Great War. It was water that wpoort and managed a controlled The incident was even described as a halted the German invaders in Flan- flooding of the Yser estuary. This new kind of Waterloo by some. © Westtoer ders. A miracle made possible by the genius plan ensured the safety of the know-how of two locals and a handful French Channel Ports and, as a direct www.westfrontnieuwpoort.be of Belgian officers and soldiers. And consequence; the BEF was not cut off yes, British officers had entertained from its supplies and its homeland. BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY LANGE MAX MUSEUM Houthulst Koekelare THREE CANALS

The most well-known Belgian war The Lange Max Museum is In 1914 and 1915, this bridge was VISITOR CENTRE WESTFRONT NIEUWPOORT cemetery, with 1,855 graves arranged in situated on the German side of the an important outpost for the Belgian the form of a sixpointed star. Western Front, with a farmyard at the and later French troops. A memorial The victims fell mainly during the heart of this cultural location. A long plaque on the wall commemorates Westfront Nieuwpoort tells the full and interactive visitor centre was built liberation offensive of 1918. It is located lane takes you from the farmyard to the French Zouaves. In November 1914, story of the flooding of the plains, underneath the monument. A highlight in the heart of Houthulst forest and the remains of the artillery platform of French Zouaves attacked strong bringing the German invasion to a of the visit is definitely the projection also holds 81 Italian soldiers. former German cannon “Lange Max”. German positions. The Germans halt at the outskirts of the city. It is of the 377 feet long and 49 feet high Visit the new museum to learn all launched their advance by making the story of the power of the sea and animated Yser-Panorama painting. about the largest cannon of its time, captured Zouaves walk ahead of them the smart handling of the water locks. Last but not least, do not forget to which was designed to bombard into no-man’s-land. Suddenly one of The perfect place to tell the story visit the top of the monument itself Dunkirk. The museum focuses on the the Zouaves cried out, ‘Shoot us, for of the flooding is the King Albert Ist and enjoy the panoramic view over Sites German occupation of Koekelare with God’s sake: it’s the Germans!’ monument on the edge of the lock the coast and the hinterland. a unique exhibition on the organisa- The attacked failed. De Boot, an complex “The Ganzepoot”. A modern tion behind the front line and the ecological canal boat, is moored at the production of army goods. It also Three Canals. Address Opening hours Price © Westtoer features the little Bakehouse, which Kustweg 2 Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Adults: €7.00 still shows signs of German presence, i Address 8620 Nieuwpoort Closed: every Monday 0-6 years: free and has now been converted into a Three Canals (exept on bank holidays) 7 - 25 years: €5.00 multimedia room. Drie Grachtensteenweg Contact 25 December & 1 Januari GROUPS (min. 20) 8650 Merkem +32 (0)58 23 07 33 Adults: €5.50 i Adress [email protected] 7-25 year: €3.50 Clevenstraat 2, 8680 Koekelare Opening hours Schools: €3.00 From dusk to dawn Website Tour guides: €60.00 Website www.westfrontnieuwpoort.be Sites www.langemaxmuseum.be Entrance Free access

42 43 44 experience centre visitors can experience the events behind behind events the experience can visitors centre experience Inthe nurses. and doctors by refugees, as well as continents fromother country, the fromall over people by populated were surrounding region the Veurne and forces. occupying German the in resisting I succeeded Albert King From here, Sector. Belgian so-called the Germans, bythe occupied not was that of Belgium section remaining last the on focuses described. those soldiers, then and now, will be commemorate we in which ways the and highlighted, be will cemetery the storiessome of buried soldiers in explained, be will in Belgium fought four that US of the divisions activities The quarters. Superintendent’s former in the open will WWI during Belgium in US to involvement the devoted of 2017,spring centre avisitor war. of the days Inthe last those ing dur lives their lost soldiers fallen 368 of majority the The 1918. November to 11 30 October from 30 offensive, Ypres-Lys the during fought Division Ninety-first the where battlefield a on lies It in Belgium. cemetery World War IUS only is the Cemetery sites in Flanders Feelds Flanders in sites Other interesting www.vrijvaderland.be Website [email protected] 31 55 33 +32 (0)58 Contact Veurne 8630 29 Grote Markt Landshuis en Stad- Address Waregem 2017) (spring CENTRE + VISITOR VRIJ VADERLAND (FREE FATHERLAND) FATHERLAND) (FREE VADERLAND VRIJ MEMORIAL AND AMERICAN CEMETERY FLANDERS FIELDS

The Flanders Field American American Field Flanders The The experience centre in the historic town of Veurne town historic in the centre experience The

- 25 December & 1 January: closed &1January: December 25 -17:00 13:00 holidays: - SunSat &public -17:00 -Fri: 9:00 Mo March: -31 November 12 - 17:00 10:00 holidays: &public -So Sa - 17:00 -Fri: 9:00 Mon November: -11 1 April Opening hours i © Westtoer Mon-Sun: 9 am –5pm 9am Mon-Sun: Opening hours www.abmc.be Website Veurne Veurne

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by Albert I, King of the Belgians. of the King I, Albert by Group Army commanded Flanders the to attached were World War and First of the end the at vicinity in the fought units These US divisions. Ninety-first honours and the Thirty-seventh It Commission. Monuments Battle American the by maintained park of asmall end atthe stands eagles, stone two by flanked States United of the shield the bearing limestone, Leuven. of city of the enjoy view aunique can visitors where balcony outside is the tower. visit of of the the Ahighlight part closed in the is exhibited WWII) degree to alesser (and of WWI result a as place took that of Leuven town of the reconstruction and destruction of the representation innovative and evocative An centre. city in Leuven landmarks important most of the is one tower library university The sites in Flanders and Brussels and Flanders in sites Other interesting i Oudenaarde Leuven AMERICAN MONUMENT AMERICAN LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF TOWER THE Oudenaarde 1 Pershingstraat Generaal Address

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sculptures. various and cemeteries 4war through reflected is symbolically of WWI brance remem the where in area an out starts walk This WWI. with associated buildings and monuments European and to all Belgian visitors taking devised, been has trail A remembrance places. famous Europe’s most miniatures of contains park The Brussels MINI-EUROPE ©Mini-Europe © Toerisme Leuven - i i www.minieurope.eu Website [email protected] +32 50 (0)2 05 478 Contact 1020 Brussels Bruparck Mini-Europe, Address www.visitleuven.be [email protected] [email protected] via reservations Trade: €4.00 €7.00Standard: Price holidays public on Closed day 5pm until from am 10 Every Opening hours Leuven3000 21 Mgr. Ladeuzeplein Address

45 Sites DISCOVER THE BATTLEFIELDS Coach parking There is coach parking available at the following locations Getting there and around close to important landmarks:

Ypres: train station. More info about parking in Ypres: INTERESTING WEBSITES VISITING FLANDERS FIELDS http://www.toerismeieper.be/images/filelib/ folderbusregeling2014low_1577.pdf www.flandersfields.be Some of the cemeteries, visitor centres and other sites in the Poperinge: Peperstraat/Oudstrijdersplein, Sportzone This website provides all the information needed to discover Westhoek are difficult to reach by public transport. Reningelstseweg - Ouderdomseweg, Zuidlaan the Flanders Fields region. It also provides useful For this reason, if visitors do not have their own transport, (next to the ring road), Westlaan (next to the ring road), information about places to stay in the Westhoek. we recommend booking an organised tour or renting a Lijssenthoek military cemetery bicycle or car. Zonnebeke: Museum Passchendaele, Tyne Cot Cemetery www.flandersfields1418.com Diksmuide: Yser Tower, train station, 4AD music club The official website of Visit Flanders in the United Kingdom, Nieuwpoort: adjacent to the King Albert I monument it lists all the places of interest and events related to the CYCLING IN THE WESTHOEK Great War that are taking place in Flanders and Brussels. There are a number of themed cycling routes that will take Some of the cemeteries, visitor centres and other sites in the you past WWI heritage sites. These routes can be viewed at Westhoek are difficult to reach by public transport. TRAVELLING TO FLANDERS www.flandersfields.be. You can also find a list of cycle hire For this reason, if visitors do not have their own transport, companies that operate in Flanders Fields on this site. we recommend booking an organised tour or renting a By air: bicycle or car. The nearest airports are Brussels Airport and Charleroi Airport. VISITING THE WESTHOEK BY CAR www.brusselsairport.be There are many car routes that allow visitors to discover the FLANDERS FIELDS FROM THE AIR AND ON THE WATER www.charleroi-airport.com war landscape and its different landmarks. More Skyview balloons organise balloon flights over the Great War information can be found on www.flandersfields.be Frontline: www.skyviewballoons.be By train: There are high-speed trains from Paris, London, Cars can be rented from the major car rental companies Helipromotions organise helicopter flights and Amsterdam to Brussels and Lille. which have branches in Brussels, Bruges, Ostend and www.battlefields.be www.raileurope.com elsewhere in the region, as well as from local companies. Alfa flight also organises flights: www.alfaflight.be By car: There are motorways from Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, VISITING THE WESTHOEK BY COACH Seastar organizes boat trips from Nieuwpoort to Diksmuide. and the coast to Flanders Fields. Organised bus tours www.seastars.be There are also motorways from France to Flanders Fields. Several operators offer small-group or private tours taking a standard or customised route in Flanders Fields. It is also By Ferry: possible to visit iconic places in France. View p. 51 You can travel by ferry from the UK to Calais or Dunkirk (France) by the following companies: P&O Ferries www.poferries.com DFDS Seaways www.dfdsseaways.co.uk THE NETHERLANDS

a Bruges Se Antwerp TRAVELLING TO th 73 km or 45,4 mi FLANDERS FIELDS N Nieuwpoort Gastronomy 41km 25,5mi Diksmuide Ghent It is possible to travel by train to Ypres from every city in 23km 14,3mi 79 km Mechelen in Flanders Fields Flanders. This will generally require a change of train in 49,2 mi Calais FLANDERS Kortrijk. Half or full day organised coach tours are offered Like all areas of Flanders, the Westhoek offers a large choice BRUSSELS Hasselt Poperinge Ypres 123 km to and in Flanders Fields, incorporating the main sites and Zonnebeke of restaurants in every price range. Websites of each town/ 14km 76,7 mi 8,7mi 8,5km Leuven GERMANY the Last Post ceremony. View p. 51 5,3mi city provide information about local restaurants. Mesen More information about travelling by train: www.toerisme-ieper.be www.belgianrail.be/en FRANCE www.toerismepoperinge.be Fromelles Lille WALLONIA www.toerisme.diksmuide.be Vimy www.nieuwpoort.be 68km 42,3mi Hamel Arras Information about restaurants elsewhere in Flanders is available from www.visitflanders.co.uk Thiepval 124km 77mi

46 Villers-Bretonneux 47 The battlefields, Organized battlefield tours

accessible to all Several operators offer small-group or private tours taking a standard or customised route in Flanders Fields. It is also INTRO The commomoration of the Great War Our accessibility information is always All events featuring the OK label possible to visit iconic places in France. Centanary is expected to attract tens base on objective and independent have taken at least basic measures to of thousands of international visitors on-site inspections, which means that accommodate all visitors. For more of all ages, some of whom will require not all locations claiming to provide specific details on all disability-related assistance in terms of access. easy access have been included in our facilities, please contact brochure. Please note that accessibilty [email protected] 2XPLORE FLANDERS FIELDS BIKING BOX CYCLETOURS To this end, VISITFLANDERS has also depends on the visitor in developed the “The Great War question, as each disability or Also useful in terms of wheelchair- Centenary: accessible to everyone” limitation differs. We therefore accessible locations is the Standard or customised tours Guided bicycle tours. Possibility of bus transport to project, which strives to ensure access recommend contacting locations AccesSEAble app. which can be departure and from arrival, bicycle rental service for all visitors and provides beforehand in case of specific downloaded via Google Play, the App i Max. number of participants: Standard: 8. (road bicycles, electric bikes, tandems) information an all aspects of an acces- accessibilty concerns. Store or the Windows Phone Store. Bigger groups possible sible stay: information and welcome, Duration of tour: Half day/full day i Max. number of participants: No limit accommodation, restaurants, cafes, The following symbol is used to www.visitflanders.com/en Departure: Ypres or other place as agreed Duration of tour: sites, transportation, parking, indicate wheelchair-accessible options [email protected] Price: from €35 to €80 p.p. depending on the tour Half day/full day/several-day cycling holidays assistance and care, etc… in this trade brochure: Website: www.2xplore.be Departure: Ypres i VISIT FLANDERS Booking: [email protected] or +32 475 519828 Price: Prices range from €12 to €28 p.p., Alterations are often required to Whereas certain locations provide lunch and bike rental not included ensure easy access for people with easy access, others may require a little Address Website: www.rentaguide.be reduced mobility. Most of the more effort or third-party assistance. Grasmarkt 61, 1000 Brussels, Booking: [email protected] or +32 488 40 74 40 information in our brochure ‘Great Fore more detailed information on Belgium War Centenary - accessible for all’ is wheelchair-accessible locations, please therefore primarily intended for those consult our “Great War centenary - Contact QUASIMODO TOURS RENT A GUIDE with mobility issues. However, we Accessible for all” brochure. +32 (0)2 504 03 40 also report on additional facilities for +32 (0)2 504 04 05 people with visual, hearing, learning or The museums and/or sites that Standard tour: Visits to Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Mines of Messines tour, Passchendaele tour, the last 100 days other disabilites. For visually impaired offer additional facilities for visually Brochure Hill 60 preserved battlefield, a German cemetery, bunkers of the Newfoundland Regiment tour, in the footsteps of a visitors, we have developed an additi- impaired visitors are indicated via www.visitflanders.com/en/ and craters, restored trenches, Hooge Crater Museum, Essex relative, and more onal brochure (“Great War Centenary the following symbol: For more accessibility/brochures/ Farm Cemetery and dressing station (John McCrae site), the - tips for visually impaired visitors”) in detailed information regarding these order-brochures.jsp town of Ypres and the Menin Gate, and various memorials to i Max. number of participants: 7 which we provide an overview of the facilities, please consult our “Great War the British Forces (including ANZAC and Canadian) Duration of tour: Half day/full day museums, events and other places of Centenary - Tips for visually impaired Departure: Ypres or your accommodation interest that offer extra facilities for visitors” brochure. i Max. number of participants: 28 Price: Half day €150/group, full day €350-400/ group people with a visual impairment. Duration of tour: full day (lunch and admission fees not included) Departure: Bruges Website: www.rentaguide.be Price: €67.50 incl. light lunch, excl. drinks Booking: [email protected] or +32 488 40 74 40 Website: www.quasimodo.be Booking: [email protected] or +32 50 370 470 Explore WWI outside the classroom WESTERN FRONT GUIDE FRONTLINE TOURS

The guide "Explore WWI outside the classroom in Flanders This guide also provides dozens of suggestions on how to Possible tours are: The Anzacs from Fromelles to Passchen- Visits to Ypres, the Yser river, and Poperinge. Tours in Dutch, Fields", produced by Visit Flanders in collaboration with the enhance the experience for students. You will find the most daele, Canada 1917: The Birth of a Nation in Europe, English, French, and German. Themed tour: “In the footsteps Province of West Flanders, aims to assist tour operators and famous WWI memorials on Flanders’ Western Front listed on My Relative on the Front of Hitler and Churchill”. Also tailor-made tours. teachers with the organisation of field trips to WWI sites for these pages, as well as many other locations in and around English-language primary and secondary school pupils. Flanders Fields that tell the story of occupied Belgium. i Max. number of participants: 7 i Max. number of participants: 19 It goes without saying that, in addition to the more famous Duration of tour: Half day/full day Duration of tour: 2 hours/4 hours The guide contains tips on visiting a memorial, teaching sites, there are many smaller places whorty of a visit. Departure: Ypres Departure: Ypres or your accommodation in the resources in preparation for a trip, interesting websites, Price: half day €35 p.p., full day €55 p.p. Ypres-Poperinge region accommodation suggestions, alternative transport options, i Brochure Website: www.westernfrontguide.com Price: 2 hours: €25 p.p, 4 hours: €40 p.p. advice on how to organise a longer trip, and information www.visitflanders.com/en/passchendaele/press-and-trade/ Booking: [email protected] Website: www.frontline-tours.com on the cultural programme GoneWest, incluiding the unique or + 32 497 29 15 57 Booking: [email protected] or +32 488 40 74 40 sculpture project “ComingWorldRememberMe”.

48 49 SUGGESTIONS FOR CAR OR COACH ITINERARIES FOR TOUROPERATORS

THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN FLANDERS FIELDS Messines – Zonnebeke – Ypres THE BRITISH AND THE BATTLES OF 1917 THE BATTLE OF THE MINES THE CANADIANS IN FLANDERS FIELDS DAY 1 DAY 1 Heuvelland – Komen – Wijtschate – Messines Ypres – Zonnebeke – Zillebeke - Tourist Information Point, Messines: 10 a.m.* - Tourist Information Point, Messines: 10 a.m. DAY 1 - New Zealand soldier statue: 10:45 a.m. - Messines Ridge British Cemetery: 11 a.m. - Visitor centre, Heuvelland: 10 a.m.* - In Flanders Fields Museum: 10 a.m.* - New Zealand Memorial, Messines: 11 a.m. - Pool of Peace: 11.30 noon - Bayernwald in Heuvelland: 11 a.m. - Lunch in Ypres: 12 noon - Messines Ridge British Cemetery: 11:30 a.m. - Bayernwald: 12 p.m. - Lunch in Heuvelland: 12 noon - Essex Farm, where John McCrae wrote - Peckham Farm Crater, Messines: 12 noon - Lunch in Heuvelland: 12.30 p.m. - Pool of Peace in Heuvelland: 2 p.m. his world-famous poem: 2 p.m. - Lunch in Ypres: 12:30 p.m. - Hill 60 and Caterpillar Crater: 2 p.m. - Tourist Information Point Messines*, - ‘The Brooding Soldier’ memorial to the Canadian - In Flanders Fields Museum: 2 p.m. - Menin Gate: 3.30 p.m. Irish Peace Park and Peace Tower in Messines: 3 p.m. 1st Division during the first gas attack in 1915: 3 p.m. - Menin Gate: 4 p.m. - Menin Gate and Last Post: 8 p.m. DAY 2 DAY 2 - Memorial Museum Passchendaele: 10 a.m. DAY 2 THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE - Nine Elms British Cemetery in Poperinge, - Tyne Cot Cemetery: 11.30 a.m. Zonnebeke - Memorial Museum Passchendaele: 10 a.m.* where 270 New Zealanders are buried, - Lunch in Zonnebeke: 12.30 p.m. - Lunch in Zonnebeke: 12 noon including the All Blacks captain Dave Gallaher: 10 a.m. - Polygon Wood: 2.30 p.m. - Tyne Cot cemetery, - Memorial Museum Passchendaele: 11 a.m. - Memorial Museum Passchendaele: 10 a.m.* where 1,011 Canadians are buried: 2 p.m. - Lunch in Zonnebeke: 12.30 p.m. - Lunch in Zonnebeke: 12 noon - Crest Farm Canadian Memorial, Zonnebeke: 3 p.m. - Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke: 2.30 p.m. THE WELSH AT PASSCHENDAELE - Walk to Tyne Cot Cemetery: 2 p.m. - 85th Canadian Memorial, Zonnebeke: 3:30 p.m. - New Zealand Memorial at ’s Graventafel: 4.00 p.m. Ypres-Boezinge-Langemark - Visit to Tyne Cot and visitor centre: 3 p.m.* - Sanctuary Wood Cemetery and - Buttes New British Cemetery: 4 p.m. Hill 62 Canadian Memorial: 4 p.m. i Did you know that Longueval and Le Quesnoy is only - Entry Point Ypres North: 10 a.m. 1 hour and 30 minutes from Ypres? - Yorkshire Trench: 10:30 a.m. i Did you know that Vimy (France) is only one hour from - Welsh Cemetery: 11 a.m. THE IRISH IN MESSINES Ypres? - Artillery Wood Cemetery: 11:30 a.m. Messines THE AUSTRALIANS IN FLANDERS FIELDS - The Welsh Memorial Park: 12 noon - Lunch in Ypres: 12:30 a.m. - In Flanders Fields Museum: 2 p.m. - Tourist Information Point: 10 a.m. DAY 1 - Menin Gate & The Last Post: 8 p.m. - Irish Peace Park: 11 a.m. - In Flanders Fields Museum: 10 a.m.* - Lone Tree Cemetery and Irish Memorials: 11:30 a.m. - Menin Gate: 12 noon - Lunch in Heuvelland: 12:30 p.m. - Lunch in Ypres: 12.30 p.m. - Redmond Grave: 2 p.m. - Hill 60 and Caterpillar Crater: 2 p.m.* - Toronto Avenue Cemetery: 3.30 p.m.* * From June to December, extra temporary exhibitions about the events of 1917 DAY 2 - Memorial Museum Passchendaele: 10 a.m.* - Lunch in Zonnebeke: 12 noon - Polygon Wood: 2 p.m. - Tyne Cot Cemetery: 3.30 p.m.

i Did you know that Fromelles is only a half an hour and Villers-Bretonneux 1 hour and 45 minutes from Ypres?

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50 51 Hotels Hotel Ariane / **** Friendly, family hotel with pleasant Slachthuisstraat 58 This is a selection of hotels in Flanders Fields or in the nearest cities Roeselare or restaurant. Dine in style by candlelight 8900 Ieper Kortrijk with twenty or more rooms. or in the orangery looking out onto +32 57 21 82 18 the terrace, garden, and pond. The [email protected] rooms and relaxation facilities are www.ariane.be pico bello. Peaceful location 5 mins Best Western Hotel Pax / *** from the Grote Markt. B&B Half board Single €105 – €140 – Hotel Pax has luxury rooms with all Heilig hartplein 2 Total capacity: 62 rooms – 124 people €145 p.p. €180 p.p. mod cons. One of these rooms has 8600 Diksmuide Double €62, 50 – €97, 50 – been specially equipped for disabled +32 51 50 00 34 €8 2, 50 p.p. €117, 50 p.p. guests. There are facilities for the [email protected] organisation of conferences or www.bestwestern.be meetings. Bicycle shed available.

Total capacity: 36 rooms – 100 people B&B Single €75 – €80 p.p. Kasteelhof ‘t Hooghe / *** Double €50 – €62 p.p. Peacefully located in a romantic and Meenseweg 481 historic setting on ‘Hooghe’. Stylish 8900 Ieper rooms with all mod cons, private car +32 57 46 87 87 park, garden, forest. Unique inner [email protected] garden terrace. http://www.hotelkasteelhoft- Kasteelhoeve Viconia / *** hooghe.be/ Total capacity: 27 rooms – 54 people Castle hotel with character, situated Kasteelhoevestraat 2 very peacefully in the thick of a nature 8600 Stuivekenskerke (Diksmuide) B&B Half board reserve. Large garden with terrace. +32 51 55 52 30 Single €65 – €93 – Fine cuisine, cosy atmosphere. [email protected] €75 p.p. €103 p.p. www.viconia.be Total capacity: 23 rooms – 47 people Double €42 – €86 – €52 p.p. €106 p.p. B&B Half board Single €62 – €85 – €76 p.p. €99 p.p. Novotel Ieper centrum / *** Double €42 – €65 – €56 p.p. €79 p.p. Novotel Ieper Centrum is situated in Sint-Jacobsstraat 15 the historical centre of Ypres, close 8900 Ieper to the Market Square, the In Flanders +32 57 42 96 00 Fields Museum, and the Menin Gate. [email protected] Albion hotel / *** Our bar-brasserie boasts a diverse www.novotel.com/ieper menu in a convivial environment. . Calm, yet very central. The facade Sint-Jacobsstraat 28 B&B already suggests the class indoors. The 8900 Ieper Total capacity: 122 rooms - 438 people Single €95 – €196 p.p. baroque music in the lounge sets the +32 57 20 02 20 tone. Your room offers comfort and [email protected] Double €57,50 – €180 p.p. atmosphere, and the next morning www.albionhotel.be 21st room free of charge many Westhoek delicacies await you. B&B Total capacity: 32 rooms – 67 people Single €84 – €124 p.p. Double €53 – €85,50 p.p. Reduction for groups, minimum 5 rooms

52 53 Hotel Regina / ** Hotel Callecanes / ***

Located on the magnificent Grote Grote Markt 45 Callecanes has comfortable rooms Callicannesweg 12 Markt in Ieper. A culinary temple in 8900 Ieper and fine cuisine. You have a beautiful 8978 Watou (Poperinge) the Westhoek. +32 57 21 88 88 view of the quiet countryside from +32 57 38 88 08 [email protected] the back of the hotel. Wide offer of www.hotel-callecanes.be Total capacity: 26 rooms – 57 people www.hotelregina.be culinary arrangements [email protected]

B&B Half board Full board Total capacity: 37 rooms – 74 people B&B Single €70 – €90 – €110 – Single €99 – €119 p.p. €100 p.p. €130 p.p. €150 p.p. Double €60 – €95 p.p. Double €60 – €80 – €100 – €90 p.p. €120 p.p. €140 p.p. Coach driver stays free (min. 20 p.)

Hotel Damier / **** Flanders Lodge / *** Unique boutique and lifestyle hotel Grote Markt 41 Restaurant with regional dishes Albert Dehemlaan 19 with a rich history, ideally located 8500 Kortrijk and local beers. Terrace with winter 8900 Ieper at the renovated Grote Markt of the +32 56 22 15 47 garden for visitors. Excellent base +32 57 21 70 00 trendy shopping city of Kortrijk. [email protected] of operations for bicycle tours from [email protected] Recommended by the famous ‘Condé www.hoteldamier.be the Westhoek to the sea, the border www.bestwestern.be Nast Johansens’ and a member of region with France, and the historic Worldhotels. B&B battlefields of WWI. B&B Half board Total capacity: 49 rooms – 93 people Single €85 – €180 p.p. Total capacity: 40 rooms – 90 people Single €52 – €72 – Double €105 – €250 p.p. €58 p.p. €78 p.p. Double €38 – €58 – €42 p.p. €62 p.p. Coach driver stays free (min. 20 p.) Parkhotel / ****

Comfortable 4-star hotel located a few Stationsplein 2 Hostellerie Kemmelberg / **** steps away from the centre of Kortrijk. 8500 Kortrijk Fine cuisine at very attractive prices. +32 56 22 03 03 Chef Solange, Lady Chef 2000, Kemmelbergweg 34 [email protected] prepares her fair and refined cuisine 8956 Kemmel Total capacity: 135 rooms – 196 people www.parkhotel.be in wondrous surroundings. For you +32 57 45 21 60 further enjoyment, one of the most [email protected] B&B magnificent views of Flanders is www.kemmelberg.be Single €110 – €200 p.p. thrown in for free. Double €65 – €140 p.p. B&B Half board Total capacity: 21 rooms – 63 people Single €99 – €136 – €199 p.p. €236 p.p. Center hotel / *** Double €54,50 – €91,50 – €104, 50 p.p. €141, 50 p.p. The Center Hotel is a full-facility hotel Graanmarkt 6 in the heart of Kortrijk, between the 8500 Kortrijk station and the Grote Markt. Perfect +32 56 21 97 21 for business people or tourists visiting [email protected] Kortrijk. www.centerhotel.be

Total capacity: 39 rooms – 59 people B&B Single €87 p.p. Double €54, 50 p.p.

54 55 Hotel Ibis Style Kortrijk Expo / *** Square Hotel / ***

Standard rooms with excellent President 1 This hotel has a superb location, just Groeningestraat 39 bathrooms (bath and shower), 8500 Kortrijk a short walk from the market square. 8500 Kortrijk spacious and luxury rooms, +32 56 20 06 87 Hotel Square has 26 lovely bedrooms, +32 56 28 89 50 junior suites, and suites. [email protected] with all the comfort and amenities you [email protected] www.ibis.com may expect from a three-star hotel. www.squarehotel.be Total capacity: 80 rooms – 160 people B&B Total capacity: 26 rooms – 52 people B&B Single €92 – 245 p.p. Single €90 – 100 p.p. Double €57, 50 – 122,50 p.p. Double €50 – 60 p.p.

Hotel Messeyne / **** Hotel Cosmopolite / ***

Hotel Messeyne is located in the Groeningestraat 17 Fully refurbished hotel close to the Albert I laan 141 historically interesting Groeningestraat, 8500 Kortrijk sea. Two restaurants and bar. Special 8620 Nieuwpoort in the centre. In the pleasant bistro +32 56 21 21 66 winter weekend packages. Free use of +32 58 23 33 66 one can enjoy excellent cuisine, while [email protected] sauna and heated indoor swimming [email protected] the historical garden offers a beautiful www.messeyne.com pool at the Hotel Carlton. www.cosmopolite.be place to relax. Gym facilities, sauna, and hammam. B&B Total capacity: 129 rooms – 350 people B&B Single €125 – 180 p.p. Single €75 – 105 p.p. Total capacity: 28 rooms – 56 people Double €70 – 110 p.p. Double €55 – 72,50 p.p.

D-hotel / **** Parkhotel Roeselare / ***

d-hotel is a unique marriage between Abdijmolenweg 1 Hotel with modern rooms in central Vlamingstraat 8 a historic site and a new futuristic 8510 Marke location. Good price/quality ratio. 8800 Roeselare design. On the d-hotel site, you find +32 56 21 21 00 Private parking and excellent cuisine. +32 51 26 31 31 an authentic, protected windmill from [email protected] Free use of sauna. [email protected] 1841 as well as a protected inner farm- www.d-hotel.be www.phr.be house square. The concrete structure Total capacity: 48 rooms – 100 people of the hotel is combined with large B&B Half board B&B surfaces of glass windows. These Single €103 – €143 – Single €86 – 106 p.p. simple materials make you feel relaxed €169 p.p. €209 p.p. Double €51,50 – 64 p.p. and provide a sense of openness. The green environment around d-hotel Double €60 – €100 – €90 p.p. €130 p.p. is not only a pleasure for the eye, but also emphasises the ecological De Vijfwegen / *** character of this hotel. d-hotel offers a luxurious spa centre and an outdoor 800 metres from the E403, the Hoogstraat 190 swimming pool (open from 1 July to perfect base of operations for trips 8800 Rumbeke (Roeselare) 31 August), a cosy lounge bar, and a to Bruges-Ypres-Kortrijk. The hotel is +32 51 24 34 72 wonderful bistro. attractively furnished. You can enjoy [email protected] a delicious meal or an aperitif on the www.hotelvijfwegen.be Total capacity: 44 rooms – 90 people terrace at Bistro Frogs. B&B Total capacity: 11 rooms – 22 people Single €75 – 89 p.p. Double €102 – 105 p.p.

56 57 hotel Mercure / **** The Menin Gate

The stylish rooms are equipped Kwadestraat 149 Situated near the Menin Gate, this is Kauwekijnstraat 1 with all modern comforts and offer a 8800 Rumbeke (Roeselare) a great location for visitors wishing to 8900 Ieper variety of services. A Superior Access +32 51 43 20 00 explore the war past of the city of Ypres. +32 57 21 20 01 + Room provides all facilities required [email protected] The old house has a very authentic [email protected] by wheelchair-users. The Mercure Team www.mercureroeselare.be character. For groups of 30 to 52. www.meningate.com pulls out all the stops to cater for every wish of our guests, to guarantee B&B Half board Number of beds: 55 (6 rooms 1-4 p., B&B Half board Full board them the best possible experience. 5 rooms 5-8 p.) 50 50 Single €60 – €30 p.p. €41 , p.p. €47, p.p. €139 p.p. Total capacity: 87 rooms – 176 people Double €35 – €58 – €74, 50 p.p. €97, 50 p.p.

The salient

The Salient is a historical building in D’Hondstraat 27 the centre of Ypres, located only 160m 8900 Ieper from the market square. Here, they can +32 57 21 20 01 accommodate groups of up to 102 [email protected] people in a quiet area, even though www.salient.be it’s located in the heart of the West- Flemish city of peace. The ground floor B&B Half board Full board has recently been renovated entirely €30 p.p. €41 , 50 p.p. €47, 50 p.p. Youth Accommodation and opens onto the terrace and large private garden, which means enough This is a selection of youth hostels in place for everyone. Flanders Fields and Kortrijk that offer catering services. Number of beds: 102 (9 rooms 1-4 p., 6 rooms 5-8 p. >8p. 5 rooms)

De Lork The poppies 1&2

De Lork is located in the southernmost Kattekerkhofstraat 2 Home sweet home for groups of up Gustave de Stuersstraat 6 tip of the West-Flanders Heuvelland 8956 Kemmel to 129 and a minimum of 25 in the 8900 Ieper region, on the flank of the highest hill, +32 57 44 59 70 historical center of Ypres. Located next +32 57 21 20 01 the Kemmelberg. This youth centre is [email protected] to the market square of Ypres, The [email protected] ideal for all kinds of groups and trips. www.delork.be Poppies 1 & 2 is the ideal accommo- www.thepoppies.be Various materials are available for dation for history tours. Your stay in lessons, meetings, and training seminars. B&B Half board Full board these authentic, classic, old School Hotel B&B Half board Full board A large gym is also available. In the area €17, 30 – €21,12– €23, 20 – combined with its unique location will €30 p.p. €41 , 50 p.p. €47, 50 p.p. you can walk, cycle, go horse-riding, €25, 30 p.p. €36, 54 p.p. €42, 88 p.p. make your trip to the Ypres Salient” swim, visit museums, and much more. Coach Driver Free. Teachers: unforgettable.. one free primary teacher for ten Number of beds: 174 (35 rooms 1-4 p., pupils, one free secondary teacher Number of beds: 129 (16 rooms 1-4 p., 12 rooms 5-8 p.) for 15 pupils 19 rooms 5-8 p. >8p. 6 rooms)

58 59 De lep Oude Abdij

De Iep is just 25 minutes on foot from Poperingseweg 34 the centre of Ypres. This accommodation 8900 Ieper A former abbey and brewery. An ideal Noordstraat 3 is very popular with schools. The good +32 57 20 88 11 base for exploring the Westhoek region. 8647 Lo-Reninge price-quality ratio and the flexibility with [email protected] Loved by cyclists. Generous discount +32 58 28 82 65 regards to meals are a plus. A good place www.deiep.be for group stays.. [email protected] to rest after a busy day. The friendly and www.oudeabdij.com dedicated staff ensures a successful stay. B&B Half board Full board Total capacity: 58 rooms – 195 people B&B Half board €34, 39 p.p. €41 , 08– €47, 54 p.p. Number of beds: 60 €43 , 34 p.p. €40 p.p. €60 p.p. €5 reduction for 3 nights, coach Coach driver free (1 per bus). 1 free driver and guide free member of staff per 15 pupils (sec- ondary). 1 free member of staff per 20 pupils (post-secondary). Hostel Groeninghe

This hostel opened in 2015 and offers a Passionistenlaan 1a Peace Village Hostel restaurant on-site, a bar, and two meet- 8500 Kortrijk ing rooms. The hostel is within walking +32 56 98 06 92 The hostel caters for multiple target Nieuwkerkestraat 9a distance of the station and historical [email protected] groups, including people with physical 8957 Mesen centre. With Kortrijk close to the French www.jeugdherbergen.be/kortrijk limitations. Besides several meeting +32 57 22 60 40 border, this is an ideal city from which to and conference rooms, we also have [email protected] explore the north of France too.. B&B Half board Full board our own in-house restaurant and bar. www.peacevillage.be €23 – €30,50 – €42 , 5 0 – The outdoor facilities (including sports, Number of beds: 123 (29 rooms 1-4p., €49 €56,50 €6 8 , 5 0 bonfire, etc.) have a breath- B&B Half board Full board 9 rooms 5-8p.) p.p. p.p. p.p. taking view over the former battle- €28 – €34 – €4 0 – Coach driver free fields, memorials, and cemeteries. €31 p.p. €43 p.p. €55 p.p. Through the Flanders Peace Field Coach and teacher free project, we focus on the remembrance of the local Christmas Truces. With tailored educational (evening) activi- You can also stay in Bruges, Ghent, or towns and cities on www.belgiancoast.co.uk ties, guided tours, itinerary help, etc., the coast. Please have a look at their websites: https://bezoekers.brugge.be/staying-in-bruges we provide quite a number of extra https://visit.gent.be/en/accommodation services for residential groups.

Number of beds: 135 (35 rooms 1-4 p., 8 rooms 5-8 p.)

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