Ypres Christmas Market Guide
Things you may want to know :
Dates: 1st December 2012 - 2nd January 2013
Number of stalls: 35 approximately
Coach parking: Yes
Convinient ferry ports: Calais, Zeebrugge
Closest airport: Brussels
Tourist information: www.ieper.be
Making the Magic - Ypres Xmas market
Ypres Xmas market: www.kerstmarkt-ieper.be/
To start planning your trip:
Visit European Connoisseurs Travel Antwerp Xmas market tour page
Call on freephone 0800 298 0588 or
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Ypres Christmas market is held in the Grote Markt - the main square. Here the wooden stalls are decorated as mini Swiss chalets and there is an ice rink.
When in Ypres, there is much to be remembered. With deeply engrained links to World War One, you will experience a highly moving Christmas tour as there are many war cemeteries and monuments throughout the city and in the nearby area.
From October 1914 until October 1918 the battlefield was close to the centre of Ypres."The trenches had been dug from North to South to form an arch around Ypres. In that famous Ypres Salient no fewer than five bloody battles were fought. In the 1920s more than 150 military cemeteries were built in and around the city and monuments were erected. Menin Gate being the most important." ( Ypres Tourist Office ).
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