Visit Ypres with the official tourist site with information concerning the most important Great War and medieval sites
Opening Hours
Mon - Fri    9 AM - 5 PM
Sat - Sun  10 AM - 5 PM
From April to 15th of November till 6 PM 
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Ypres Tourist Office
Cloth Hall
Grote Markt 34
B - 8900 Ieper
T 057 239 220
F 057 239 275
toerisme@ieper.be

The Battlefields - sites around Ypres

Between 1914 and 1918 hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought doggedly over this cramped corner of the Western Front in four years of concentrated warfare around Ypres

The desolate battlefield landscape that defines the Ypres Salient's horrors in popular memory is long gone but many reminders of the profound impression the Great War made here, remain today.

Between 1914 and 1918 hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought doggedly over this cramped corner of the Western Front battlefield in four years of concentrated warfare around Ypres.   The desolate battlefield landscape that defines the Ypres Salient's horrors in popular memory is long gone but many reminders of the profound impression the war made here, remain today.
 

Many people visit the war graves of Tyne Cot Cemetery or want to see an actual trench like the Yorkshire Trench.

Other popular and interesting battlefield sites around Ypres: Hill 60, German cemetery in Langemark, Essex Farm Cemetery - site John Mc Crae, Bayernwald or Pool of Peace - mine crater - in Wijtschate and many more...

 

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