13 Sights in Ypres, Belgium (with Map and Images)

The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) on the market square in the city centre. The building was largely destroyed by artillery during the war, but was afterwards reconstructed. In 1998 the original Ypres Salient Memorial Museum was refurbished and renamed In Flanders Fields Museum after the famous poem by Canadian John McCrae. Following a period of closure, the museum reopened on 11 June 2012. The curator, Piet Chielens, is a World War I historian.

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Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, was an English medical doctor, Olympic athlete, and British Army officer from the Chavasse family. He is one of three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice, the others being Arthur Martin-Leake and Charles Upham.

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The Canadian Hill 62 Memorial is a war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps in defending the southern stretches of the Ypres Salient between April and August 1916 including actions in battle at the St Eloi Craters, Hill 62, Mount Sorrel and Sanctuary Wood. These battles marked the first occasion in which Canadian divisions engaged in planned offensive operations during World War I. In those actions the Canadians reconquered vital high-ground positions that denied the Germans a commanding view of the town of Ypres itself.

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St Martin's Church, also called St Martin's Cathedral, is a church and former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801, and is still commonly referred to as such. At 102 metres (335 ft) tall, it is among the tallest buildings in Belgium.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres (EN), Heritage Website

Saint George's Memorial Church, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, was built to commemorate over 500,000 British and Commonwealth troops, who had died in the three battles fought for the Ypres Salient, during World War I. It was completed in 1929.

Wikipedia: Saint George's Memorial Church, Ypres (EN), Heritage Website

Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery forms part of the village churchyard located around the Catholic parish church of Zillebeke in Belgium. A section of the parish churchyard used by the inhabitants of Zillebeke is maintained as a war cemetery by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as a burial ground for the dead of the First World War near Ypres (Ieper) on the Western Front.

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St. James' Church is a church in Ypres, Belgium. It is located halfway between the Menin Gate and the Lille Gate, close to the Sint-Vincentiuscollege in Ypres. The building has been protected as a monument since 1940, as has the surrounding Guido Gezelleplein, which has been protected as a landscape since 1976.

Wikipedia: Sint-Jacobskerk (Ieper) (NL), Heritage Website

Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery is a British military cemetery with fallen soldiers from the First World War, located in the Belgian village of Vlamertinge. The cemetery is located in the center of the village, about 50 meters north of the church. She was designed by Reginald Blomfield and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The site has a trapezoidal floor plan with an area of 5,740 m² and is slightly higher than street level. At the front, the site is enclosed by a wall with a shelter building at both ends. In the center of the wall is the Cross of Sacrifice and at the back of the cemetery is the Stone of Remembrance.

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Western Front demarcation stones, also known as Bornes du Front and Bornes Vauthier, are monuments erected in France and Belgium to mark the limit of the German advance during the First World War. The stones were the idea of sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier, a veteran of the war, and were erected between 1921 and 1930. The total number of stones erected is unclear but it is thought that there were 118 official stones, of which 93 survive. The stones identify the army that held that sector in 1918 and are engraved with the text "Here the invader was brought to a standstill 1918" in English, Dutch, and French.

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The Gothic-Romanesque St. Peter's Church is a church in Ypres, Belgium. It is located in the Rijselstraat near the Immaculata school. Next to the church there is a small garden open to the public. There are narrow high walls with images of Christianity.

Wikipedia: Sint-Pieterskerk (Ieper) (NL), Heritage Website

The Lille Gate is a city gate in Ypres, Belgium. The gate is located in the south of the city centre, on the road to Lille. The Lille Gate is the oldest and only surviving city gate from the fourteenth century that connects two preserved parts of the Ypres fortifications.

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The Sint-Jansgodshuis is a historic building in the Belgian city of Ypres. It is a former almshouse, which until the end of 2017 the Municipal Museum of Ypres. Since September 2019, the socio-artistic project 'Service of the Dreamed Regions' has taken up residence there.

Wikipedia: Sint-Jansgodshuis (NL)

The Church of Our Lady of the Mediator is a parish church from 1929 in the West Flemish city of Ypres, located at Capucienenstraat 48 and belonging to the adjacent Capuchin monastery. It has been a protected monument since 1996.

Wikipedia: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Middelareskerk (Ieper) (NL)