Iepers, Belgium

The town Hall at Iepers, Ypres

This was the Center the Flanders Fields

So many lost there lives year on both sides.

today is is museum, so we parked the car in the market square and went in.

the museum was a very interactive one.

but it held nothing back, this place was the centre of hell

I paid to go up the tower, looking toward the Menen Gate

the opposite direction shows the town was rebuilt in the same as before.

But the Gate was rebuilt and made into a monument

 

 walking up a down the staircases was an experience.

from there we went to the Gate, to find the names.

 

George Surridge

John Monument

But it was just the sheer number of Names of those that weren't found.

If you didn't know the panel, you would be there all day.

 

They would go from the top to the bottom

 

Inside the gate, 54000 names in Total

And Outside.

I was lucky I found all 8 I was looking for.

Back in the town we decide to stop for lunch.

Lunch in a french bistro. 

Great meal.

After that we went to the cathedral that the Catholic church rebuilt.

beautiful windows

and architecture

the Alter piece was from Rome

the ceiling Gothic

 

the statues looked like they had been for long time. but they were all post WW1

This was Total flat at the end of the war.

We left for Dunkirk but it was moving place.