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Tickets for In Flanders Fields: Tour from Brussels

A poetic day trip from Brussels including lunch

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Brussels City Tours - Keolis Travel
Registered address: Avenue de Béjar, 1120, Brussels, BE
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Duration: 13h
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Live guide: English, French, Spanish
Smartphone tickets accepted

What's included

Roundtrip by coach from Brussels to Flanders
Live guide throughout the trip
Entrance to the Flanders Field Museum
Lunch (with bread)

Meeting point

14 Boulevard de Berlaimont, 1000, Brussels

  • Be picked up and brought back to Brussels on a luxury, air-conditioned coach for a thought-provoking day trip and get lunch included
  • Start at a German Cemetery, see the WW1 trenches and The Brooding Soldier, a sombre statue erected in honor of the Canadian resistance during the German gas attack of 1915
  • Pay your respects at the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world

It's thought that the death of his friend, Alexis Helmer, inspired John McCrae's WWI poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915. This poetic day trip from Brussels includes lunch and a visit to the place where McCrae wrote it, Essex Farm Cemetery - plus many other sites dedicated to the fallen of the First World War.

Flanders Fields was a major battle-site in the First World War, from 1914 to 1918. In the Essex Farm Cemetery your guide will take you back in time, via the trenches and commemorative statue to the Canadian resistance during the German gas attack of 1915.

After lunch you'll visit the biggest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, Tyne Cot Cemetery, as well as Hill 60 or Hill 62 - memorial sites lined with Canadian maple trees. See the cratered ground and old German bunkers, and soak up the stories of trench war in the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.

Then pay tribute to Britain's missing soldiers and officers at the Menin Gate, before being transported back to Brussels. It's a thought-provoking, oftentimes heart-wrenching day out that should put everything else into perspective.

Show your ticket at the Brussels City Tours Office. Your guide will pick you up there. The tour starts at 09:00. Make sure to be at the Brussels City Tours Office 15 minutes before departure.

Getting to the Departure Point:

  • Train to Central Station + 5-minute walk
  • Metro to De Broucker + 7-minute walk
  • From Grande Place it's a 3-minute walk
  • Cancellation is possible until 23:59 on the day before your visit.
  • Rescheduling is possible until 23:59 on the day before your visit.

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John,  Belgium Belgium
25 Aug 2019
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Visite très impressionnante et émouvante. Chapeau au guide (Joan) qui nous aura tenu en haleine pendant près de ....13 heures !!!! Anecdotes passionnantes , visites de sites historiques et autres...
Visite très impressionnante et émouvante. Chapeau au guide (Joan) qui nous aura tenu en haleine pendant près de ....13 heures !!!! Anecdotes passionnantes , visites de sites historiques et autres mémoriaux/ cimetières de la Grande Guerre (1914-1918) , en plus sous un soleil de plomb et une chaleur écrasante . Vraiment je conseille vivement cette excursion . Si vous ne savez pas quoi faire de votre dimanche , alors n'hésitez plus , réservez votre journée à Flanders Fields .
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