Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ypres, Belgium

St. James' Church is a church in the Belgian city of Ypres. It is located halfway between the Menin Gate and the Lille Gate, near the Sint-Vincentiuscollege in Ypres. The building has been protected as a monument since 1940, as has the surrounding Guido Gezelleplein, which has been protected as a landscape since 1976.

Wikipedia: Sint-Jacobskerk (Ieper) (NL), Heritage Website

The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) on the market square in the city centre. The building was largely destroyed by artillery during the war, but was afterwards reconstructed. In 1998 the original Ypres Salient Memorial Museum was refurbished and renamed In Flanders Fields Museum after the famous poem by Canadian John McCrae. Following a period of closure, the museum reopened on 11 June 2012. The curator, Piet Chielens, is a World War I historian.

Wikipedia: In Flanders Fields Museum (EN), Website

Alphonse Louis François Xavier Vandenpeereboom was a Belgian liberal politician.

Wikipedia: Alphonse Vandenpeereboom (NL)

Saint George's Memorial Church, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, was built to commemorate over 500,000 British and Commonwealth troops, who had died in the three battles fought for the Ypres Salient, during World War I. It was completed in 1929.

Wikipedia: Saint George's Memorial Church, Ypres (EN), Heritage Website

St Martin's Church, also called St Martin's Cathedral, is a church and former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801, and is still commonly referred to as such. At 102 metres (335 ft) tall, it is among the tallest buildings in Belgium.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres (EN), Heritage Website