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In Flanders Fields Museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
7 km · about 15 min drive
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Wijtschate
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
About Wijtschate
Wijtschate works well as a base: 5 minutes from Kemmel, 41km from De Panne Beach.
Wijtschate is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 2,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Kemmel, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Wijtschate?
Within an hour or so of Wijtschate: In Flanders Fields Museum (7 km), Menin Gate (7 km), In de Vrede (17 km), Vieux Lille (21 km).
Are there any good drives near Wijtschate?
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road, Brouwersdam and Chimay Street Circuit.
Where is Wijtschate?
Wijtschate is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Kemmel.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,978
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Flanders
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7863, 2.8837
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Worth the detour from Wijtschate
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Menin Gate
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
7 km · about 15 min drive
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In de Vrede
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
21 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Louvre-Lens
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
40 km · about 45 min drive
beach
De Panne Beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
41 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Bruges Markt
The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
53 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Wijtschate
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 55 kmKoninklijke Baan Coast RoadThe N34 'Royal Road' hugs nearly the whole Belgian coast, sharing its corridor with the world's longest tram line and passing Belle Epoque De Haan, dunes and beach resorts.
Driving in Belgium
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.74/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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