Menin Gate Memorial – Leie Cycle Path Kuurne–Harelbeke loop from Ieper
Menin Gate Memorial – Leie Cycle Path Kuurne–Harelbeke loop from Ieper
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Menin Gate Memorial – Leie Cycle Path Kuurne–Harelbeke loop from Ieper
03:59
87.8km
220m
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: April 24, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 85.5 km for 189 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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1.01 km
In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle)
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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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1.44 km
Menin Gate Memorial
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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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40.8 km
Leie Cycling Path: Desselgem to Harelbeke
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46.1 km
Leie Cycle Path Kuurne–Harelbeke
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47.9 km
Leie Riverside Path: Kortrijk to Kuurne (North Side)
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49.8 km
Leie North Bank Pathway: Bissegem to Kortrijk
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57.6 km
Leie Riverside Path — Lauwe to Menen
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If strong headwind, things get tough!
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62.4 km
Lys Towpath: Menen–Wervik
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85.6 km
Vredesbos
Forest
87.8 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
34.3 km
32.4 km
18.5 km
1.28 km
1.15 km
237 m
Surfaces
64.2 km
19.9 km
1.24 km
1.12 km
920 m
531 m
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Elevation
Highest point (60 m)
Lowest point (10 m)
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Thursday 16 July
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16°C
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