Diksmuide Attractions
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The small Flemish town of Diksmuide (French Dixmude), 20km/12miles inland from the coast on the IJser, was flattened to ground level by week-long German artillery fire during the First World War. Like Ypres the town has been rebuilt in the old Flemish style and is now an important market center for intensive dairy farming. The fact that the ordinary soldiers who died along the IJzerfront on the Belgian side were chiefly Flemish - whereas the officer corps was made up primarily of Walloons and French was the language of command - makes Diksmuide with the IJzer monument a place of great symbolic importance for Flemish political consciousness.
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Diskmuide - IJser Gate
The IJser Gate is a WWI memorial devoted to the loss of 40,000 Flemish soldiers. From the tower good views can be had of the surrounding countryside, once the scene of terrible fighting.
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Torhout, Belgium
(Near Diksmuide)
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Vladslo, Belgium
(Near Diksmuide)
