Yser Tower

Welcome to the banks of the Yser River, gently flowing through the peaceful Kaaskerke district of Diksmuide. Where you stand today was once the critical heart of the Belgian front line during the First World War, a location…

It is a truly astonishing and moving historical turn that this massive Peace Gate was newly constructed by painstakingly reassembling the concrete rubble, crushed stone dust, and red brick fragments of the first Yser Tower that…

It is a deeply sobering and astonishing historical fact that the grand fifty-meter-high first Yser Tower, which was completed in nineteen thirty and stood proudly pointing toward the sky, was completely reduced to ruins by a…

It is a deeply moving and extraordinary historical fact that during the terrible dynamite blast of nineteen forty-six that shattered the original tower above into pieces, the reliquaries and coffins enshrined inside this…

It is an astonishing record demonstrating the unyielding vitality of the Flemish people that they poured hundreds of thousands of red bricks, hundreds of tons of sturdy steel, and thousands of cubic meters of reinforced concrete…

It is a truly astonishing and moving experience that where you stand right now is the twenty-second floor panorama deck of Europe's tallest peace memorial at eighty-four meters, a historical vantage point offering a…

As you complete your journey through the grounds and museum of the Yser Tower site, we hope you have felt deeply the tragic history preserved within this UNESCO World Heritage location and the noble value of peace that has…