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Menin Gate
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
11 km · about 20 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Comines works well as a base: 10 minutes from Warneton, 46km from De Panne Beach.
Comines is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 7,899, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Comines sits in Belgium, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Brussels time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Comines to your route.
Comines-Warneton (French: [kɔmin waʁnətɔ̃] ; Dutch: Komen-Waasten [ˈkoːmə(ɱ) ˈʋaːstə(n)] ; Picard: Comène-Warneuton; West Flemish: Koomn-Woastn; Walloon: Cômene-Varneton) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is contiguous with the identically named Comines on the otherRead more
side of the border with France.
On 1 January 2006 it had a total population of 17,562. Its total area is 61.09 km2 (23.59 sq mi) which gives a population density of 287 inhabitants per square kilometre (740/sq mi). The name "Comines" is believed to have a Celtic, or Gaulish, origin. Comines-Warneton is a municipality with language facilities for Dutch-speakers.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bas-Warneton, Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, and Warneton (including the hamlet of Gheer). They were all transferred in 1963 from the arrondissement of Ypres in the Dutch-speaking province of West Flanders to the newly created arrondissement of Mouscron in French-speaking Hainaut. The five municipalities (Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, Bas-Warneton, Warneton) were merged into a single Comines-Warneton municipality in 1977. Since then, the municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French-speaking area of Belgium.
Comines-Warneton is twinned with Hedge End in England and with Argenton-les-Vallées in France.
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Comines is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7754 latitude, 3.0012 longitude.
Comines has a population of approximately 7,899 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
11 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
12 km · about 20 min drive
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
16 km · about 30 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.
24 km · about 25 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
41 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
47 km · about 55 min drive
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The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
51 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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