In Flanders Fields-marathon

Course highlights

The start is given to the wharf, at the mouth of the Nieuwpoort city fishing mine. 

The city of Nieuwpoort, with the King Albert 1 monument , the big Euro-marina and the so-important locking complex , was at that time the starting point of the front line that went through Switzerland. From the quayside (vismy) we walk to the Union Bridge, and then on to Schoorbakkebrug , where we reach the left of Stuivekenskerke . Through the nature reserve "Kleiputten" we continue our journey along the iron, and now walk close to the silent trenches of the dead end. Here there is a beautiful view of "Diksmuide" with the Begijnhof and the towers of Belfort and Sint Niklaaskerk.

After Paxpoort and the Iron Tower , the memorial of the Flemish emancipation and European peace domain, we see links in the Iron Valley Nature Reserve " the Blankaart ". We walk further along the iron to the Knokke bridge, a former fortress. We leave the iron and along the Ieperlee it goes to Steenstraete (and cafe Steenstraete ) past the monument of the Van Raemdonck brothers. In the hamlet "Steenstraete" there is a memorial for 6000 Belgians who became victims of a first poison gas attack in 1915. Through the sas of Boezinge, it passes along the Ypres-Ypres canal and we see many military cemeteries, including the John McRae memorial , Talana Farm, Welsh Cemetry, Bard Cottage, Essex Farm, ... 

At the end of the We will immediately arrive in the center of Ypres, the medieval town of Laeken, and walk through the monumental " Menenpoort " to the beautiful big market with lakenhalle and belfort tower , the long awaited arrival. So here we have a beautiful, flat course on the front line, often along watercourses. With numerous war memorials referring to the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of young people from many countries! "We shall remember them" Arthur Halestrap, 100-year-old war veteran '14 -'18, at the Menin Gate, November
november 1998.