New temporary exhibition 'Echoes of War'
Commemoration Carabiniers - Grenadiers
Lecture: Pilgrimages to Flanders
In 2023 and 2024, LANDSCAPES | Feel Flanders Fields is the new theme for tourism centred on the First World War. Tourism Flanders and Westtoer are working together with various partners in the Westhoek under that heading. Following on from the 2023 Reflection...
On September the 28th, the final offensive started that ended World War I. That day, the Belgian army, under the command of King Albert I, together with the French and British, attacked the Germans on the ridge near Ypres. After heavy fighting, the Belgian...
About ten years after the end of the First World War, one cemetery after another was inaugurated on the former sites of destruction and despair. Notable examples include Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was officially inaugurated in June 1927, and the Menin...