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YPRES SALIENT! Forever seared into British memory!

Once a scene of terrible destruction, where just under a million men were killed, went missing and were injured in four years of the Great War! Born of this nightmare were headline names such as Passchendaele, Hooghe, Messines, Bellewaerde...

Against this hopelessness of war we pitch the war poets: McCrae, Ledwidge, Hedd Wyn, Grenfell... All lay or are commemorated here in Flanders Fields! To visit the battlefields of old and then recite Ledwidge's "Spring" at his graveside on a beautiful spring morning, with the skylarks in full chorus, is a must!

How else could Ypres be awarded both the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Today, Ieper/Ypres is a beautiful, thriving market town, drowning in the Great War history and tourism. Come and see it in all its glory, you will not be disappointed!

The Li'lle Gate Guest House is located 100m from the Lille Gate, in a quiet street in the oldest parish of Ypres, a short walk from the Grote Markt and the Menin Gate.

email: info@lillegateguesthouse.com