This 85-kilometer-long car and motorcycle route is signposted and takes you to Poperinge, where you can glimpse the bitter life behind the front, and Heuvelland, the scene of years of battles.
For army leaders wanting to survey the front line from Messines across Wytschaete to Ypres, the Kemmelberg was the place to be during the First World War. From 1914 to 1917, the British army controlled the strategic hilltop.
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