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7 Memorial Museum
Passchendale Tips for Drivers
Diksmuide
This 19th-century Starting point: Diksmuide.
mansion, located in Length: 60 km (37 miles).
Zonnebeke, contains Duration of drive: A thorough
numerous World War I tour will require two days. It can
artifacts, and includes be done in one day, but visitors
impressively recon- may need to be selective.
structed dugouts Driving conditions: The roads
and trenches.
are good and usually fairly quiet.
Signposting can be random.
Where to stay and eat: The main
8 Menin Gate centre is Ypres, but there are
Each evening in Ypres, restaurants and accom modation
the Last Post, played by all along the route, especially in
buglers at the Menin Gate, the smaller centres such as
echoes beneath the huge Diksmuide, Zonnebeke, Zillebeke,
arch which lists the Kemmel and Mesen.
names of 55,000 missing
Commonwealth soldiers.
9 Hill 62, Sanctuary Wood
Museum A private collection of
0 kilometres 2 military jumble leads to a wood
0 miles 2 where original trenches have
been preserved.
Bikschote Langemark
0 Hill 60, Zillebeke
BOEZINGE STR Poelkapelle A battered, scarred hilltop, the
much dis puted Hill 60 faced
devastating attacks from
LANGEMARKSWEG ZONNEBEKSTRAAT underground mines.

Zonnebeke

q Pool of Peace
Ypres Underground mining and a huge explosion
beneath German lines in 1917 resulted in the
water-filled Lone Tree Crater, which has now
Zillebeekse been designated the Pool of Peace.
Vijver
Zillebeke
VAARTSTRAAT
e Irish Peace Tower
This Irish monastic round tower w French Memorial
in early medieval style was built in and Ossuary
1998 at Mesen to commemorate The land rises
the Irish dead, and as a symbol dramatically in
of reconciliation. Heuvelland (Hill
Country) and around
Kemmel. The French
Key fatalities in a battle of
Tour route 1918 are remembered
in a monument on
Motorway
Kemmel Hill, and
Other road 5,000 lie nearby in
Mesen Battlefront 1915–17 the French Ossuary.
A monument depicting the Van Eyck brothers, Hubert and Jan, in Ghent

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