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Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres – Menin Gate Memorial loop from Zonnebeke

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Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres – Menin Gate Memorial loop from Zonnebeke

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Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres – Menin Gate Memorial loop from Zonnebeke

01:44

29.1km

150m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

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3.09 km

Black Watch Corner Memorial

Highlight • Monument

This statue of a Black Watch-Soldier is located on the southwestern edge of the Polygon Wood and stands in almost the same place where they made history. At this location, "Black Watch Corner" the German advance stopped on November 10/11, 1914. The memorial is a permanent tribute to the fortitude of the legendary Black Watch Regiment. During WW1, almost 9,000 soldiers of this Regiment were killed and more than 20,000 were wounded.

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10.1 km

Hill 60 Memorial

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Hill 60 is a memorial site and park on a World War I battlefield in the Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke south of Ypres, Belgium.

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11.7 km

De Palingbeek

Nature Reserve

16.5 km

Zillebeke Pond

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An interesting anecdote concerns the battles around the pond during the war. Soldiers used the pond as a natural barrier and shelter. There are stories of soldiers wading through the water at night to reach enemy lines, which gave the pond strategic significance.

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18.5 km

Vauban Ramparts and Moat, Ypres

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Old records of Ypres go back to the 11th century as "Iprensis" and "Ipera". The name would come from the river Ieperlee, formerly called Ypres. It was a founded city that industrialized early and grew into the third city of the county of Flanders, but then experienced a decline. The cloth industry collapsed. During the First World War, the Ypres was on the frontline and was razed to the ground. A historicizing reconstruction was chosen that revived the city. In the 21st century, Ypres attracts tourism from home and abroad.

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18.6 km

Rijselpoort (Lille Gate)

Highlight • Historical Site

The Lille Gate is a city gate in the Belgian city of Ypres. The gate is located in the south of the city center, on the road to Lille. The Lille Gate is the oldest and only preserved city gate from the fourteenth century that connects two preserved parts of the Ypres fortresses.
The Lille Gate, formerly called the Mesen Gate, dates from the Burgundian period (14th century) and is finished with Burgundian towers. The gate has been renovated several times. In the 17th century, Vauban had the tower lowered and the main wall widened. After destruction in the First World War, the gate was rebuilt.
The Rijselpoort separates the Majoorgracht from the Kasteelgracht, and is therefore a combination of a water and land gate. The entrance to the vaulted hall is on the left of the Lille Gate. To the right of the gate we find the lock room with the lock doors of the streams and settlement waters.
The Ieperlee enters the city through this gate. The Ieperlee has a bed of approximately 2.5 meters deep and is not the feeding stream for the settlement canals.

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19.4 km

Kazematten Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge (Ypres)

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Just down the road of the Menin Gate, every evening there is a bugle played for changing of the guards

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20.2 km

Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres

Highlight • Historical Site

The Lakenhalle is basically a trade fair hall - much more magnificent than today's "event locations". In the Middle Ages, Ypres was an important trading center for cloth and fabrics. You can see the importance of this magnificent Gothic building for the "Laken" (Dutch for cloth).

Built into the mighty building is the belfry - you can also find it in numerous cities in Flanders as an expression of civic pride and self-confidence.

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20.6 km

Menin Gate Memorial

Highlight • Monument

Historically, the Menin Gate of Ypres was just a passage across the moat and ramparts of the old city fortifications, on the road to the nearby town of Menen. Nevertheless, it had a special meaning for the troops: from here thousands of soldiers made their way to the front, which was called the Ypres Salient - many were never to return.

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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29.1 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

17.5 km

4.34 km

4.23 km

1.78 km

1.27 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

13.2 km

1.35 km

705 m

560 m

155 m

Elevation

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Weather

Saturday 22 August

21°C

9°C

12 %

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Comments

July 8, 2025,Heuvel 60 – Zillebekevijver rondtocht vanuit Ieper

Added a cycling section through Ypres. The first half of the ride was boring. Too much time on larger roads. The return trip along the 1914-1918 Front was much better and still made it a pleasant bike ride.

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July 17, 2025,Beselare-Palingbeek-Ieper-Polygoonbos-Beselare

Visit witches in Beselare and have a picnic at the eel stream.

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Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres – Menin Gate Memorial loop from Zonnebeke

Black Watch Corner Memorial

Hill 60 Memorial

Zillebeke Pond

Vauban Ramparts and Moat, Ypres

Rijselpoort (Lille Gate)

Kazematten Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge (Ypres)

Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle), Ypres

Menin Gate Memorial

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