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In Flanders Fields Museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
17 km · about 20 min drive
Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Bailleul works well as a base: 10 minutes from Steenwerck, 42km from De Panne Beach.
Bailleul is a town located in Hauts-de-France, France. With a population of 14,884, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Bailleul sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Bailleul to your route.
Bailleul (French pronunciation: [bajœl] ; Belle in Dutch) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is located in French Flanders, 3 km (2 mi) from the Belgian border and 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Lille.
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Bailleul is located in Hauts-de-France, France, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7359 latitude, 2.7359 longitude.
Bailleul has a population of approximately 14,884 people, making it a town in France.
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museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
17 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
17 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
25 km · about 30 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
40 km · about 45 min drive
beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
42 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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