Menin Gate Memorial – Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres loop from Ypres
Menin Gate Memorial – Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres loop from Ypres
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Menin Gate Memorial – Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres loop from Ypres
02:14
43.3km
160m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 18, 2026
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1.78 km
Menin Gate Memorial
Highlight • Monument
Today you are standing in front of one of the greatest and most moving memorials of the First World War in the form of a Roman triumphal arch. During the inauguration ceremony in July 1927, the Somerset Light Infantry horns played the tattoo for the first time, and since 1928 it has been played every evening at 8 p.m., regardless of the crowd or the weather.
The vast white Portland stone walls of the Menin Gate contain inscriptions with the names of nearly 55,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who fell on the battlefield and have no burial place; son, father, brother. Indeed, the walls of the Menin Gate were not large enough: 34,957 other names of the last lost are written on the walls of Tyne Cot Cemetery east of Ypres.
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2.09 km
Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres
Highlight • Historical Site
Built into the mighty building is the belfry - you can also find it in numerous cities in Flanders as an expression of civic pride and self-confidence.
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2.21 km
In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)
Highlight • Historical Site
Depending on your interests, you can expect to spend several hours visiting the museum.
Brief history of the building: The Cloth Hall (Grand Place) is one of the largest civil buildings in the Gothic style in Europe.
The original Cloth Hall was built between 1200 and 1304.
The belfry is 70 m high and was built between 1200 and 1230 as a symbol of the power of the citizenry. From the late 12th century until 1817, real live cats were thrown out of the belfry. These have been stuffed cats since 1955.
The Cloth Halls used to serve as a trading place for fabrics. The cloth was sold in every door at the bottom of the belfry. Ypres was very famous in the Middle Ages for the good quality of its fabrics.
The building was completely destroyed in World War I and later rebuilt. The restored Cloth Hall was completed in 1967. The architects decided to reconstruct the pre-war situation as faithfully as possible. The original stones can still be seen at the foot of the Cloth Hall; these are the largest. The higher up you go, the smaller the stones become.
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19.7 km
Begijnenbos
Forest
22.6 km
Hill 62 Canadian Memorial
Highlight • Monument
On June 6, all German guns seem to be concentrating on Hooge. Moments later, four mines go off near the hamlet. Ypres is about to fall.
The Canadian 1st Mounted Rifles is currently located at Hill 62, a site of great strategic importance. On June 2, they had seen the positions to their right go up in the air. The Mounted Rifles can barely keep Hill 62 in the days after. They have been under fire for four days when Edward Currie is killed. He is reported missing on June 6. Only his identification disc is recovered. The location on what is today the Hill 62 memorial site is noted as his place of death.
Nearby, 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐰 will be buried on June 27. The 18-year-old Londoner is killed after the battle, when a mortar shell explodes in the positions. He is buried in the trenches in what is now the far end of the memorial park.
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25.0 km
Trench 42 Memorial at Hill 60
Highlight • Monument
Hill 60, south of Ypres, was of immense strategic importance during the war. Whoever occupied the 60-meter-high hill observed the battlefield. Fierce fighting took place around Hill 60, even underground. Both sides undermined each other's positions there. On April 26, 1916, the Germans detonated a mine under Trench 42. The trench, which ran across Wervik Street, was then manned by a platoon of the Canadian 2nd Battalion (Eastern Ontario). The explosion created a crater 25 meters wide and 10 meters deep. It was a fiery task to extract the wounded, let alone the dead, from the rubble. At least four unfortunates were buried alive: Thomas Riddols, a 21-year-old student from Drayton, Ontario; Bruce Brooks, originally from London; Edward Archer; and Arthur Harris.
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25.9 km
To Palingbeek
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27.5 km
De Palingbeek
Nature Reserve
43.3 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
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20.0 km
13.8 km
7.27 km
2.17 km
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< 100 m
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20.0 km
19.9 km
1.43 km
789 m
653 m
526 m
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