Content by tag : First World War
The famous Last Post bugle ceremony conducted every evening at 20.00 in Ypres will be exported to the United States in 2024.
World War One memorial Menin Gate in Ypres will close at the beginning of 2023 for extensive renovation work ahead of its centenary in 2027.
People working in the Westhoek tourist industry gathered in Ypres’ Grote Markt yesterday with giant British flags to ask the government to allow British tourists to more easily enter Belgium.
King Philippe made his traditional Armistice Day visit to the Congress Column on Place du Congrès today. He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the foot of the column.
The First World War centenary years saw media attention around the world turn to Ypres and the battlefields of West Flanders. With that attention brought a huge increase in tourists.
It’s worth a trip to the Fine Arts Museum for the sole purpose of seeing Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s breathtaking installation ‘Me Somewhere Els
In 1915, a group of armoured cars were found unsuitable for the trench warfare happening in Flanders. That’s how an entire army corps got sent to the Russian front.
Munitions in the undersea dumping site off the coast of Knokke-Heist are leaking TNT, according to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS).
There have been hundreds of newspaper articles published around the world about the 100th anniversary of Armistice, but one Reddit post from an Antwerp man may have gotten the most attention.