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.