Menin Gate and In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres

Ypres (Ieper) was at the heart of the First World War battles in Flanders. The Menin Gate memorial bears the names of more than 54,000 Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave; every evening at 8 pm, buglers sound the Last Post beneath it, as they have almost every day since 1928.

The In Flanders Fields Museum, in the rebuilt Cloth Hall, tells the story of the war. Nearby are Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, and preserved trenches at Hill 62. Arrive early for the Last Post.