Ypres by night &

Ieper (Ypres)

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February 3rd 2011
Will ye go to Flanders? Ieper (Ypres in French; they speak Flemish here) is a beautiful little town half an hour north of the French border at Tourcoing. Given that it was completely flattened during World War &, they did an excellent job of reconstructing it. People coming back after the war had to locate where there house had been from aerial photos and start again. The town square, ... read more

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Ypres

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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more