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- 51°01′54″N 2°51′12″E / 51.03167°N 2.85333°E. The rebuilt Yser Tower, pictured in 2011, featuring the "AVV—VVK" motto.
- The Yser Tower (Dutch: IJzertoren) is a memorial along the Belgian Yser river in Diksmuide. It's a peace monument and commemorates the soldiers killed on the Yser...
- In 1928 a fifty-metre-high tower rose in Diksmuide on the left bank of the Yser, a monument to pro-Flemish soldiers who died in the First World War.
- As a peace monument, Yser Tower commemorates the Flemish soldiers killed, but it has also become a beacon of the Flemish nationalist movement.
- It avoids any in-depth discussion about the controversial history of the Yser Tower and its role in the efforts to construct a Flemish nation.
- Note that ‘Yser” in Flemish is (somewhat bizarrely) spelled “IJzer”, the Yser Tower is called “IJzertoren” and the museum’s name is “Museum aan de IJzer”.
- Begin your visit at one of the top attractions in Brugge where you can get to know more about the long history of Yser Tower in Brugge.
- Shaped like a cross, the Yser Tower lies along the Yser River, a stoic memorial monument built in hope of everlasting peace.
- The IJzertoren (Yser Tower) is a memorial along the Belgian Yser river in Diksmuide. There have been two IJzertorens, the first built after the First...
