Historic Cities

Explore Ypres in 1910

AI rebuilds Ypres (Ieper) street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.

Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction

The Quiet Grey Town, Ypres 1910

This walk shows Ypres in 1910, four years before the Great War, a provincial market town whose medieval monuments tower over hop fields and low domestic roofs. You will move from the river approach and station through gates, ramparts and market streets to the Grote Markt where the Cloth Hall and belfry still define the skyline.

24 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 8 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Ypres as it stood in 1910 (“Ypres”).

The route, scene by scene

1. Ieperlee Approach
2. Ieper Station
↳ Station booking hall · interior
3. Rijselpoort
4. Ramparts Walk
↳ Ramparts guardroom · interior
5. Rijselstraat
↳ Lace makers' workshop · interior
6. Sint‑Pieterskerk
7. Boterstraat
8. Vismarkt
↳ Estaminet zinc counter · interior
9. Neermarkt
10. Grote Markt
11. Cloth Hall
↳ Cloth Hall museum gallery · interior
12. Belfry Base
↳ Belfry carillon loft · interior
13. St Martin's Forecourt
↳ Cathedral nave of Saint Martin · interior
14. Sint‑Jansgodshuis
↳ Almshouse refectory · interior
15. Sint‑Jacobskerk
16. Ramparts Overlook