Main Square Ypres Ieper Flanders Belgium
Nowadays, the town of Ypres (in Dutch: Ieper) looks like a small quiet provincial town. The gigantic cloth hall overlooks the market square of this beautifully rebuilt medieval town. The past is always just one step away. Ypres was one of the most important cloth producing and cloth trading cities of the county of Flanders in the high Middle-Ages. Bruges is known all over the world for being a beautifully preserved medieval town, but if the First World War (The Great War) had not raged over Ypres, perhaps Ypres would have been as famous as Bruges. By 1918 almost nothing remained of the city, because it was in the middle of the frontline between the German and the Allied Armies. Ypres was bombed to pieces and almost wiped off the face of the earth. But Ypres rose again, and resumed its role as the prime city of the Flemish Westhoek.
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Location: Ypres Ieper Flanders Belgium
Photo credit: © Maurice Crooks / Alamy / Afripics
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