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Calais ¦Dunkerque¦ Cassel¦ St Omer¦ Le Touquet¦ Lille¦ Arras¦ Boulogne¦ Abbeville ¦ Douai ¦ Montreuil ¦ Ieper¦ Lens¦ Cambrai
"Although the fighting in the Salient was fierce, Ieper remained in Allied hands throughout the war while the carnage in the swamps created by shelling continued relentlesly."
Tourist Information
Visitor Centre
34 Grote Market
8900 IEPER
Tel: 057 22 85 84
Fax: 057 22 85 89
Email: toerisme@ieper.be
Web: www.ieper.be
Food and fuel
Ieper is not well served by Hypermarkets. There are plenty of Hypermarkets over the border in France, the Auchan Englos Centre Commercial is probably the closest.
Where to stay
Novotel
Part of the ACCOR Group the Novotel is centrally located and offers good internet deals.
Useful Links
http://www.inflandersfields.be/
The official site of the In Flanders Field Museum
http://go.to/Ypres
Brief history of town and 1914 - 1918 fighting. Many more useful links.
www.lastpost.be
Website of the Last Post Association who hold the Last Post in the Menin Gate every evening.
Ieper was completely destroyed by shelling in the First World War. Ieper - Ypres known as Wipers by the British troops was in the middle of a salient on the Western Front which stretched from the Channel to Switzerland. Although the fighting in the Salient was fierce, Ieper remained in Allied hands throughout the war while the carnage in the swamps created by shelling continued relentlessly.
The Cloth Hall can be found at the centre of Ieper. It is a replica completed in 1967 of the original hall built in the 13C. The Cloth Hall at the time was built when Ieper was an important cloth trading centre. It now houses the Tourist Information Office and the "In Flanders Field Museum", this has been subject to a recent revamp. It now allows you to take on the persona of a soldier or local inhabitant to experience the life in the Ypres salient during the First World War. The museum is closed on Mondays.
The Menin Gate on the way out of Ieper Eastward is the memorial to the missing from the Salient. At 20h00 each day the Last Post is sounded by the Last Post Association in tribute to the sacrifice made by the troops at the Ypres Salient.
At the Tourist Information Office you can pick up a map of the "Ramparts Route". The town ramparts have been restored and are quite impressive along with the moat.
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