YPRES, Belgium Travel Vlog | IEPER Flanders Battlefield Tour
I recently spent two incredible nights in Ypres, Belgium. I stayed at Main Street Boutique Hotel which was the cutest hotel ever!
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I loved exploring the historical town in West Flanders and did a Ypres Salient Battlefield Tour on the second day. I had such a great time there and I can't wait to return to Belgium to explore more. Check out my previous video for my time in Bruges!
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Ieper Ypres, Belgium
In this video our travel specialists have listed some of the best things to do in Ieper (Ypres) . We have tried to do some extensive research before giving the listing of Things To Do in Ieper (Ypres).
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List of Best Things to do in Ieper (Ypres), Belgium
Menin Gate Memorial
Last Post ceremony
Saint Julien Memorial
Bedford House Cemetery
Lest We Forget Battlefield Tours (Flanders)
In Flanders Fields Museum
Ramparts Cemetery
Saint George's Memorial Church
Langemark Cemetery
Essex Farm Cemetery
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WWI Cemetery and Trench Tours in Ypres, Belgium
Hi everyone! Here is the video we made while visiting the cemeteries and war memorials in Ypres, Belgium. Sorry that this was such a long video but I found everything so interesting and I just had to share it.
If you are interested in taking this tour in Ypres, here is the information: . We took the Grand Tour and it was absolutely amazing. Highly recommended! Thanks so much to our Tour Guide Christine, you were fantastic!
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Ypres Salient - Western Belgium
Some of the fiercest and bloodiest battles in World War I were fought in a small corner of western Belgium - the Ypres Salient. Today an area of bucolic farmland sprinkled with reconstructed villages, the region is nevertheless filled with soldiers' cemeteries and war memorials, reminders of the brutal destruction of four years of trench warfare. From our home base at Talbot House in Poperinge, The Distant Lands Show explores the sobering war monuments and peaceful landscape of this crossroads of war. #DISTANTLANDS #TRAVELTIPS #TRAVEL
Ypres - Belgium!
A visit to the pretty town of Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium, it is best known for The Menin Gate, and the In Flanders Fields Museum.
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Top 14 Things To Do In Ypres, Belgium
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Here are top 14 things to do in Ypres, Belgium
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1. Marvel at the Lakenhalle -
2. Climb the man-made Hill 60 -
3. Pop into the Belle Almshouse -
4. Watch the Last Post ceremony -
5. Be moved by Flanders Fields -
6. Tour the Flanders Battlefield -
7. Enjoy some local cuisine -
8. Pay your respects at the Menin Gate Memorial -
9. Visit one of the city’s best art museums -
10. Eat some chocolate -
11. Tour the Kazematten Brewery -
12. Walk along the Vauban Ramparts -
13. Walk around the Market Square -
14. Eat some baked goods -
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Sanctuary Wood & Hooge Crater
An aerial film of the Sanctuary wood and Hooge crater areas of the Ypres salient.
Hotel Ambrosia Ieper(Ypres), Belgium: World War 1 Revisited
Hotel Ambrosia is situated in the heart of the beautiful town of Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium. Vincent, your host, will be happy to welcome you in this charming, family-run hotel. Guests can unwind in the comfort of their stylish hotel room. Cooked breakfast will be served if you book via
Only 200 metres away you will find the nearby market square and the famous Menin Gate. Find out about the history of this unusual city at the In Flanders' Fields Museum. This museum is based in the 13th century Cloth Hall that has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The hotel offers possibilities to rent bicycles and scooters. Stroll or cycle through the extraordinary streets of the city that was greatly destroyed during the First World War and was reconstructed again in its original style. Hotel Rooms: 10
Armistice & the Ypres Salient
Military historian John Greenacre explores the Briitish situation in the Belgian city of Ypres during the Great War and the highlights the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Ieper Salient
Ieper Salient of de Ieperboogwas tijdens de eerste wereldoorlog de boog rond Ieper waar felle strijd geleverd is tussen de verschillende legers.deze film toont de kerkhoven van de boog rond Ieper.
Ypres/Ieper - Battlefield tour
Visit to Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium in March 2013 to one of the most devastating battlefields of the Great War (World War I).
Our day in Ypres Belgium - Nov 11, 2013 (720p)
Remembrance day celebrations while we were there - incl clip (from tv imbedded - UK Prince Philip), and a practice for an evening performance by an orchestra/choir in the Ypres St Martins cathedral
- Gloria - The rights of this song go to their respective performers - practice for the Last Post Association eight edition of the 'The Great War Remembered' - concert in the Ypres Saint-Martin's Cathedral. - Royal Ypriana Harmony, orchestra, Loretto School, Beauvarlet Choir Koksijde, Roeselaars Kamerkoor and the Choir of Dartford.
BOOK REVIEW,MAJOR AND MRS HOLTS BATTLEFIELD GUIDE,YPRES SALIENT WITH MAP
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Belgium: Ypres - Ieper
Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
Te town had long been fortified to keep out invaders. Parts of the early ramparts, dating from 1385, still survive near the Rijselpoort (Lille Gate). Over time, the earthworks were replaced by sturdier masonry and earth structures and a partial moat. Ypres was further fortified in the 17th and 18th centuries while under the occupation of the Habsburgs and the French. Major works were completed at the end of the 17th century by the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.
During World War I, Ypres was the centre of intense and sustained battles between German and Allied forces. During the war, because it was hard to pronounce in English, British troops nicknamed the city Wipers.
Ypres occupied a strategic position during World War I because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of Belgium and into France from the north (the Schlieffen Plan). The neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by Britain; Germany's invasion of Belgium brought the British Empire into the war.
After the war the town was rebuilt using money paid by Germany in reparations, with the main square, including the Cloth Hall and town hall, being rebuilt as close to the original designs as possible. The Cloth Hall today is home to In Flanders Fields Museum, dedicated to Ypres's role in the First World War.The whole complex was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
The Gothic-style Saint Martin's Cathedral, originally built in 1221, was also completely reconstructed after the war, but now with a higher spire.
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres commemorates those soldiers of the British Commonwealth -- with the exception of Newfoundland -- who fell in the Ypres Salient during the First World War before 16 August 1917, who have no known grave. The memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men.
Every evening since 1928 (except for a period during the Second World War when Ypres was occupied by Germany), at precisely eight o'clock, traffic around the imposing arches of the Menin Gate Memorial has been stopped while the Last Post is sounded beneath the Gate by the local fire brigade. This tribute is given in honour of the memory of British Empire soldiers who fought and died there.
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Hill 60, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium
Hill 60, so named because of the map contour around the site, is located about 2 miles south east of Ieper. In the Great War, its height and location made it a focus of fighting on the Ypres Salient.
Of particular note, although not so clear in this 2D video, is the current undulating nature of the preserved Hill 60 site. It is full of concrete bunkers but also vast areas of mine and artillery craters.
No doubt, Hill 60 was both an important location to hold militarily but a damned awful place to hold and live.
Corrections to commentary:
1. I keep saying Hill 62!! This is Hill 60.
2. I have been advised by Simon (Belgium) that the large above ground bunker seen in this video is Aussie made not German.
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The Great War Tour
De trailer van de Eerste Wereld Oorlog tour langs de Ieper Salient en het slagveld van de Somme. Een tocht langs o.a. Tyne cot cemetery, Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Thiepval Memorial en Lochnagar Crater.
Day 10 26Aug2015 Part 2 Ypres, Belgium
Day 10 26Aug2015 Part 2 Ypres, Belgium
Start of the Ypres WW1 Salient Battlefields tour, starting with meadow and marker where Major McCrae wrote In Flanders Field:
During the early days of the Second Battle of Ypres a young Canadian artillery officer, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed on 2nd May, 1915 in the gun positions near Ypres. An exploding German artillery shell landed near him. He was serving in the same Canadian artillery unit as a friend of his, the Canadian military doctor and artillery commander Major John McCrae.
As the brigade doctor, John McCrae was asked to conduct the burial service for Alexis because the chaplain had been called away somewhere else on duty that evening. It is believed that later that evening, after the burial, John began the draft for his now famous poem “In Flanders Fields”.
Essex Farm Cemetery: there are 1,200 WW1 servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Of these burials 103 are not identified. There are special memorials commemorating 19 casualties who are known or believed to be buried among the unidentified burials.
Tyne Cot Cemetery: Tyne Cot cemetery first came into being in October 1917 when the ridge where the cemetery is now located was captured by the British Army. One of several German blockhouses was large enough to be used as an Advanced Dressing Station. As a result of casualties not surviving their wounds in this medical Dressing Station there were 354 burials near the Dressing Station.
Most of the graves in the vicinity of the Cross of Sacrifice will, therefore, be identified as they died of wounds in this place and were subsequently buried here. The graves of these burials are for soldiers, including some Germans, who died between 6th October 1917 and the end of March 1918 when the German Army attacked and retook this ridge of high ground south of Passchendaele village.
The cemetery was then again in German occupied ground from 13th April until 28th September 1918, when the Belgian Army captured the ridge in the final push during the last weeks of the war.
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The Bluff, near Hill 60, Ypres Salient
History Trip to the Ypres Salient in Belgium
History trip to the Ypres Salient in Belgium
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The Ypres Salient Singers performing In Flanders Fields from John McGraig