Top Things to do in Ieper (Ypres)
Top Restaurants in Ieper (Ypres)
Things to do in Ieper (Ypres), Flanders: The Best Historic Sites
An ancient city in the Flemish province of West Flanders, Ieper (as it’s known in the Flemish tongue) has enjoyed financial and cultural status since the 12th century. Today, visitors can check out remnants of its impressive past, including ramparts that date back to 1385 and an historic moat, which now is a haven for wildlife. Ieper found itself in the middle of World War I and suffered tremendous damage to all of its buildings, but has been both reconstructed in its medieval style and built up with modern structures.
Restaurants in Ieper (Ypres)
1. The Bluff Crater
2. CWGC Information Centre
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
The Ieper Information Centre is located in the heart of Ieper, only meters from the Menin Gate and close to the First World War battlefields. A gift shop is available at the centre. Multi-language service available, offering information and brochures about the CWGC and the numerous sites to visit in the area. Free access to our casualty database via iPad to help you find the location of graves.
3. Hill 60
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4.5 based on 600 reviews
Reviewed By Harrison-F-Carter - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
We were fortunate to visit with a BBC war journalist and he was able to share the story of this site in incredible detail... be sure to research prior to, or during, your visit.
4. The Black Watch
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4.5 based on 46 reviews
Reviewed By afrobain
we stumbled accross this whilst looking for polygon wood cemetery, this was a nice monument and being scottish it was nice to see that the black watch were remembered as they took part in a lot of major battles right from day one
5. Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
6. The Ieper Fury
7. Voormezeele Enclosure No.3
8. Sanctuary Wood Museum
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4.0 based on 217 reviews
Reviewed By J6876BXthomasg - Peacehaven, United Kingdom
I visted this museum as one of the locations visited on a day coach trip to Ypres for the Armistice Day ceremony. They have a lot of items recovered from the battlefields and the preserved trenches show us today what hell the troops must have suffered, with mud, cold, continuous enemy fire and surounded by death. If you get the chance visit the museum and reflect on the sacrifice these men made.
9. Sanctuary Wood
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3.5 based on 731 reviews
Reviewed By PatriciaG147 - Worcester, United Kingdom
Poignant and atmospheric, Sanctuary Wood will stay in my memory forever. Original trenches, original shell craters, old shells, bones, rolls of rusty old barbed wire - even some of the original blasted tree stumps that were standing in 1915, now bearing moving tributes from visitors over the years. You really feel the spirit of those who fought and died here, many of them buried in nrarby cemeteries. Inside the museum is an extraordinary archive of photographic material and other items. At the end of your visit you can pause to reflect over a coffee in the museum tearoom. Not to be missed
10. Tolhuis
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