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ZWIN BLANKENBERGE ZEEBRUGGE OOSTENDE DAMME ATLANTIKWALL BRUGGE ANTWERPEN YOU ARE VEURNE GENT WAREGEM ALMOST in IEPER KORTRIJK BRUSSEL YPRES silent witness Tourist office Lakenhalle of the great war Grote Markt 34 - 8900 Ypres +32 057 239 220 Cruise [email protected] Excursions www.visit-ypres.com Belgium Open 16-11 > 31-03: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm Weekend & public holidays: 10 am to 5 pm 01-04 > 15-11: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6 pm Weekend & public holidays: 10 am to 9 pm WELCOME TO YPRES Ypres is a city with a very rich past. During the Middle Ages Ypres became TIP famous because of the cloth trade next to Bruges and Ghent. During the First World War Ypres was almost entirely destroyed by four years of senseless The Ypres Salient is outlined by some violence. The citizens of Ypres rebuilt particular differences in altitude what their city with respect for the past. made it so important during WWI. The tour takes you to all the most Today, Ypres is a charming city where important sites and monuments on the memory of the Great War is kept the old battlefields, like Essex Farm, alive and were the medieval character Langemark, Tyne Cot, Hill 60. of Ypres can be experienced in the cosy centre or on the ramparts. www.visit-ypres.com TIP A ‘must see’ is the In Flanders Fields Museum. This is the sort of museum you can visit time and time again and still find something new. The scenography focuses on the human experience in the war, on the personal testimonial of the war experience. .

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