Ieper Things to Do Tips by myriam_c

The cathedral is a former bishop's church in gothic style with a 100 m high tower. The church had been completely destroyed in WWI (the Great War) and has been reconstructed after the war.

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Address: Vandepeereboomplein, Ieper
Directions: Not far from the Grote Markt, behind the Lakenhal.

Menin Gate (Meense Poort in Dutch) is the British war memorial of the Great War (WWI) and it attracts hundreds of thousands visitors each year, many of them British visitors.
On the walls of the gate you can read the names of 54.896 missing soldiers.
It's under the Menin Gate that every night at 8 pm the "Last Post" is played and this since 1928, as a tribute in honour of the British soldiers who fought and died in the Ypres Salient during the First World War.

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Address: End of Menenstraat
Website: www.lastpost.be/mainpage.htm

All these houses have been destroyed during the Great War (WWI) and have been rebuilt in their original style after the war.

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Address: Grote Markt, Ieper

It's nice to make a walk along the ramparts of the city. You simply walk around the inner city, past the Menin Gate and Lille Gate.

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A very interesting interactive and audiovisual museum in the centre of the small city. The museum tells the history of the city of Ieper and the whole area (Westhoek) during the Great War (WWI). It tells the story of ordinary men and women, citizens and soldiers, young and old, in fact it could have been the story about you and me.
When you enter the museum you will get a small card with a name on it. Throughout the museum you will be able to retrace the life of the person whose name is on your card by introducing the card into three interactive booths.
What I learned from this museum (and from the area in general): WE MUST NEVER FORGET.

The museum is open every day from April to September from 10 am to 6 pm - from October to March from 10 am to 5 pm, closed on Mondays.
Closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day and the first three weeks after the Christmas Holidays in Belgium.
Ticketsale stops one hour before closing time

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Phone: +32 57 228582
Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the city centre.
Website: www.inflandersfields.be

Before the Great War (WWI) this used to be the Hospital of Our Lady. Now it's the Court of Justice.

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The cloth hall used to be the place where cloth was traded. It was located next to the river Ieperlee for obvious reasons. Ships could sail in to load and unload their cargo.
The upper floor was used as a storage room.

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Address: Grote Markt

St. George's Memorial Church was built after the Great War (WWI) in memory of the soldiers who died during the war.
On all the chairs in the church there's a cushion with the family name embroided on it, which makes for a very colourful sight.

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Phone: +32 57 215685
Address: Elverdingsestraat 1
Website: netministries.org/see/churches/ch00278

Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetary isn't actually in the city of Ieper but rather in Passendale, one of the suburbs.

Originally this battlefield cemetery had only 343 graves but it was enlarged after Armistice. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials, about 12000.

Tyne Cot Memorial is in the background. On Tyne Cot Memorial there are about 35000 names of soldiers whose graves are not known and who died between August 1917 and the end of the war.

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Directions: Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat in Passendale.

This is the Canadian Memorial in Ypres where, in 1917, Blunden and his battalion were in the front line. The column is situated at a crossroads where about 18000 Canadian soldiers withstood the first poison gas attack of the Germans in April 1915 during the Great War (WWI).

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