Hotel deals in Ypres, Belgium

The first stop of the day was at a cemetery for the French. It is without a doubt the largest cemetery I have ever seen. In the centre of it is a large church (Basilica?) called Notre Dame de Lorette. I believe there are 22,000 French soldiers ...

From Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium by vanruym.133

school trip from way back in the day

From Ypres, Belgium by flaming_pie

... a giant mass grave where, since the Belgians were unwilling to give any land to the German aggressors to bury their dead in Belgium, the remains of 25, 000 German men lie buried in a single pit. The sheer scale and slaughter of the carnage that took ...

From Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium by dangabesisaak

... nicked them after the war and took them back to Australia. They put them outside the War Memorial in Canberra and in 1936, Belgium very graciously, decided to allow us to keep them. The gate was built in 1927 to commemorate all those who had died ...

From Ypres, Belgium by scootergal

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From Ypres, Belgium by skcoll

Our first day in Belgium was to be a day of side trips.  Our first stop was the town of Ypres.  Ypres was hit particularly hard in WWI and is the home of a very good museum -- In Flanders Fields.  It is a typical museum, with visual ...

From Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium by dancer_alison