The Tourist Office of Ieper (Ypres) in Flanders, Belgium
The Tourist Office of Ieper (Ypres) is located on the ground floor of the Cloth Hall (the Lakenhallen) on the market square (Grote Markt) in the centre of Ieper. The entrance is to be found halfway along the southern façade.
The Tourist Office can offer advice and information on where to eat, where to stay, and what a visitor can do and see at all times of the year in this famous city.
Ieper Tourist Office Shop
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The Tourist Office shop is very well stocked, offering a wide variety of books, maps, postcards, CDs and other souvenirs of a visit to Ieper. Many of the items in the shop are related to the period of the First World War.
The Tourist Office shop is also accessed at the end of a tour of the award-winning In Flanders Fields Museum. For information about this museum housed in the Cloth Hall go to our page at:
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper (Ypres)Ieper Tourist Office Opening Hours
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- Monday - Saturday: 09.00 - 18.00 hours
- Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00 hours
Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day
Events and Information on Ieper - Ypres
The Ieper Tourist Office website can provide lots of information about visiting Ieper. The website is in Dutch, French, English and German and it offers information for everything you might need to know about the city, its facilities and what it has to offer in the way of cultural events and entertainment.
Ieper Tourist Office Contact Details
Visitors' Centre of Ieper and the Westhoek Lakenhallen (Cloth Hall)
Grote Markt
8900 Ieper
Belgium
Telephone +32 (0)57/ 239 220
Fax +32 (0)57/ 239 275
Email: toerisme@ieper.be
Website: www.visitypres.be
Location of Ypres Tourist Office
The Tourist Office is located on the south side of the Cloth Hall, about 20 metres to the right of the Donkerpoort gateway leading underneath the belfry tower.
Related Topic
The Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)
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The Tourist Office is located inside the famous Cloth Hall of Ypres. The Cloth Hall was damaged by German artillery shelling from November 1914. By the end of the war exactly four years later is was almost completely demolished, with only the stump of the belfry tower footings remaining. For more information about this famous building go to our page at:
The Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)Useful Links
The Great War in Flanders Fields/Wereldoorlog I in de Westhoek. The site contains: a database of all monuments, sites, locations, cemeteries in the Westhoek area; an historical overview of the battles in the Ypres Salient; list of links to useful websites; general tourist information.
Visiting Messines (Mesen): The website is in Flemish. It contains information about sites to see in and around Messines, the smallest town in Belgium, including opening hours for the tourist office and the museum housed there.
Tourist Information Centre Zonnebeke. The site contains information about the five villages in the region of Zonnebeke: Beselare, Geluveld, Zandvoorde, Passendale (Paschenedaele) and Zonnebeke.
Acknowledgements
(GWPDA) Photograph with grateful thanks to the Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War.