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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.
7 km · about 15 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Wijtschate works well as a base: 5 minutes from Kemmel, 41km from De Panne Beach.
Wijtschate is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 1,978, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Wijtschate 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 Wijtschate to your route.
Several underground explosive charges were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917). The battle was fought by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer) and the German 4th Army (General Friedrich Sixt von Armin) near Mesen (Messines in French, also used inRead more
English and German) in Belgian West Flanders. The mines, secretly planted and maintained by tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers beneath the German front position, killed many German soldiers and created 19 large craters.
The explosions rank among the largest non-nuclear explosions. Before the attack, General Sir Charles Harington, Chief of Staff of the Second Army, told the press, "Gentlemen, I don't know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography". The Battle of Messines marked the zenith of mine warfare. Just over two months later, on 10 August 1917, the Royal Engineers fired the last British deep mine of the war, at Givenchy-en-Gohelle near Arras.
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Wijtschate is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7863 latitude, 2.8837 longitude.
Wijtschate has a population of approximately 1,978 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
7 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
7 km · about 15 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.
17 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
21 km · about 25 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
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.
41 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
53 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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