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What are good tourist attractions in Belgium that pertain to WWI? |
Travel Info Mainly, but not confinded to, Brussels and in/around Flanders Field? Travel Tips The famous "Flanders fields" from WW I are all in a region called "Westhoek", around Ypres (Ieper, as we call it), close to the French border. There's a great website that lists all tourist attractions: http://www.wo1.be/ (available in Dutch and in English). You find especially a lot of cemetaries of all kinds: Belgian soldiers, British soldiers, even German soldiers.... Lots of British tourists come every year to honour their soldiers. The cemetaries are beautiful. Really peaceful. The Flanders Fields museum in Ypres has it's own website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/default2.... I visited Hill 62 as a kid. It has some authentic WWI trenches and we used to play "war" there. It was great, we saw guns, bullets, gas masks.... but the little museum might appear a bit dusty for adult visitors. The walloon battle fields, in les Ardennes, close to Li猫ge are mostly from WW II. I hope this helps! Source(s): I'm from Belgium and I have a lot of friends in de Westhoek. Other Travel Tips Ypres. After the war the town was rebuilt, with the main square, including the Cloth Hall and town hall, being rebuilt as close to the original designs as possible. (The rest of the rebuilt town is more modern in appearance.) The Cloth Hall is today a museum dedicated to Ypres's role in the First World War. Ypres these days has the title of "city of peace" and maintains a close friendship with another town on which war had a profound impact: Hiroshima. The association may be regarded as somewhat gruesome due to the fact that both towns witnessed mankind at its worst: Ypres was one of the first places where chemical warfare was employed, while Hiroshima suffered the debut of nuclear warfare. War graves, both of the Allied side and the Central Powers, cover the landscape around Ypres. The countryside around Ypres is featured in the famous poem by John McCrae, In Flanders Fields. And there is something more about Ypres. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dccfar... there's always the belt of forts around luik ( liege, luttich ) . This where the first forts that had to withstand the full power of the massive guns ( 42 cm Krupp ) . At loncin this fort was hid by a grenade , that traversed the concrete, in the ammunition store and exploded with about 580 men inside . To day the remnants are a graveyard because the body's couldn't be brought to the surface Also there are the forts at Antwerpen . They where situated around antwerpen so that the Belgium army could build a national reduit around Antwerpen with his important seaport. One of then is Liezele and is in a very good cheap and you can visited the fort . There website is also a good source fore looking at the other forts of Antwerpen http://www.jinxed.de/belgien/liege1888/l... http://users.pandora.be/bart.van.bulck/s... |
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