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Ypres

Ypres is a friendly town of 35,000 inhabitants in Flanders endowed with wonderful architecture and a troubled past. Ypres is best known as the site of three major battles of the First World War, the most famous being the Battle of Passchendaele from July to November 1917. Wikivoyage

Population 35,039 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Belgium

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Belgium

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Ypres. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Kattenstoet

    May

    The Kattenstoet (lit. 'Festival of the Cats' or 'Cat Parade') is a parade in Ypres, Belgium, devoted to the cat.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Ypres); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 23 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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