Attractions

The Menin Gate & Last Post

The Menin Gate is inscribed with the names of more than 54,000 soldiers who died in the Great War, who have no known graves. It's an immensely moving memorial, even more so when, at 8pm every day of the year, the Last Post is sounded - as it has been every day since 1928.

Passendale, Tyne Cot & Trenches

Having visited In Flanders Fields museum, a trip outside town is recommended to see the various memorials to the Great War; if you don't have a car, cycle (if it's summer) or join a local tour group.

In Flanders Fields

Though there are reminders of World War I throughout Ypres & The Battlefields, it is In Flanders Fields Museum that the war is very much brought to life, using documentary films, sight-and-sound exhibitions, interactive displays and contemporary documents.

Ypres

Ypres & The Battlefields Grote Markt gives some indication of the wealth of the city in the Middle Ages, when it was ten times the size of Oxford; check out the Lakenhalle (Cloth Hall), the Belfry, Nieuwerck (Town Hall) and St Martin's Cathedral.

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

A breathtaking experience of how British troops had to live underground to escape the carnage of the war. Complete with underground dugout tunnel with communication and dressing posts, headquarters ,workplaces and dormitories. more»