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10-49K visitors

Discover these smaller tourist attractions with between 10,000 and 50,000 visitors per year on the Opal Coast, French Flanders, Belgium, and Zeelandic Flanders.

PLUS, Palace of the Universe and the Sciences (Kapelle, France)

April 3, 2026612 Views Dunkirk, France, Hauts-de-France, Chapel, Northern Department, Tourism in Dunkirk, Coastal Flanders 2 min read

is a center where science in general and the universe in particular take center stage. There are various exhibition halls....

10-49K visitors 1400-1600 Renaissance Museum New Viewpoint Observation tower Lighthouse Water

Het Hoge Licht Lighthouse (Westkapelle, Veere, Netherlands)

March 7, 2026546 Views Netherlands, Veere, Walcheren, Westkapelle, Zeeland, Southern Netherlands 1 min read

is an old lighthouse located in the center of Westkapelle (on the banks of the Westerschelde). Westkapelle is a borough...

10-49K visitors 1940-1945 World War II 360 degrees Historic site Museum War & Peace

Battery Todt – Museum of the Atlantic Wall (Audinghen, France)

March 3, 20264889 Views Audinghen, France, Hauts-de-France, Land of the Two Capes, Le Boulonnais, Opal Coast, Pas-de-Calais 3 min read

Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique, better known by the popular name "Battery Todt," is a war museum built out in and around...

10-49K visitors 1400-1600 Renaissance Belfry New Viewpoint Observation tower UNESCO

Saint-Elooi Belfry (Dunkirk, France)

March 3, 2026618 Views Dunkirk, France, Hauts-de-France, Northern Department, Tourism in Dunkirk, Coastal Flanders 4 min read

is one of two belfries in Dunkirk. It is the oldest of the two. At the bottom is the...

10-49K visitors 1919-1939 Interwar period Art Deco Closed Historic site Museum New

Eperon d'Or (Izegem, Belgium)

January 12, 20262033 Views Belgium, Izegem, Leie region, Flanders, West Flanders 7 min read

is a shoe and brush museum in a beautiful art deco building. "Eperon d'Or" literally means "golden trail." The luxury shoe factory...

10-49K visitors 1600-1750 New Times Museum War & Peace Water Science & Technology

Shipyard "The Jean-Bart" (Grevelingen, France)

December 14, 20252772 Views France, Grevelingen, Hauts-de-France, Northern Department, Tourism in Dunkirk, Coastal Flanders 4 min read

If you want to see something impressive, go and visit the shipyard of the "Jean-Bart," for example. Jean Bart...

10-49K visitors 1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees Historic site Museum War & Peace Lock / Sluice / Weir Water

WestFront - Ganzenpoot lock complex (Nieuwpoort, Belgium)

December 14, 20254155 Views Belgium, Belgian Coast, Newport, Flanders, West Flanders 1 min read

During World War I, this Goosefoot lock complex played a particularly large role. It is there one thing and another became...

10-49K visitors 1300-1500 Late Middle Ages 1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees Abbey Historical site War & Peace Top Works in progress

Chartreuse Notre-Dame-des-Prés (Neuville-sous-Montreuil, France)

December 14, 20254774 Views France, Hauts-de-France, Neuville-sous-Montreuil, Opal Coast, Pas-de-Calais, Pays du Montreuillois 13 min read

Beautiful and and very old abbey. The monastery was founded in 1325 by the Order of the Carthusians ("Chartreux"...

0027–0476 Western Roman Empire 10-49K visitors 1820–1880 Industrial Revolution Historic site Museum Top

Crypt of Our Lady Basilica (Boulogne-sur-Mer, France)

December 13, 20255130 Views Beans;Beans, France, Hauts-de-France, Le Boulonnais, Opal Coast, Pas-de-Calais 3 min read

The largest crypt in all of France is the crypt in the Basilica of Our Lady in Boulogne-sur-Mer: no less than 1,200 m² (1)....

10-49K visitors 360 degrees Historic site Castle Park Top attraction

Ooidonk Castle (Bachte-Maria-Leerne, Deinze, Belgium)

December 12, 20256569 Views Belgium, Deinze, Leie region, East Flanders, Flanders 3 min read

Ooidonk Castle certainly cannot be missing from Top.Vlaanderen ' list, simply because it is one of the most beautiful...

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EBFN Air Force Base (Koksijde, Belgium).

March 28, 2026 4 min read

Every year in Koksijde, more specifically during the first weekend of July, the local military airport hosts...

1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees Historical site War & Peace Top UNESCO

Menin Gate (Ypres, Belgium)

March 16, 2026 3 min read

1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees War & Peace UNESCO

Essex Farm Cemetery (Boezinge, Ypres, Belgium)

March 16, 2026 2 min read

1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees War & Peace Park

Hill 60 (Zillebeke, Ypres, Belgium)

March 16, 2026 2 min read

1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees 50-99K visitors Museum War & Peace

Hill 62 - Sanctuary Wood (Ypres, Belgium)

March 16, 2026 3 min read

1871–1913 Belle Époque New War & Peace Water

Fort of Alprech (Le Portel, France)

March 9, 2026 3 min read

10-49K visitors 1940-1945 World War II 360 degrees Historic site Museum War & Peace

Battery Todt – Museum of the Atlantic Wall (Audinghen, France)

March 3, 2026 3 min read

1914-1918 World War I 360 degrees Trenches Museum War & Peace Park UNESCO

Vimy Ridge – Vimy Trenches (Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France)

March 3, 2026 3 min read

1940-1945 World War II Horizon 2025 War & Peace Viewpoint Observation Tower

German Observation Tower Peselhoek (Poperinge, Belgium)

February 11, 2026 2 min read

1914-1918 World War I New War & Peace Viewpoint

Belgian Frontzate Fortification (Ramskapelle, Nieuwpoort, Belgium)

February 6, 2026 4 min read

About us

Philippe Vercoutter & Kristine De Loose have been living and working in the Flanders region for decades. As such, they know the region quite well: the Opal Coast, northern France, West Flanders and Zeeland Flanders.

Philippe Vercoutter is both a computer science graduate and an engineer in image processing techniques. Kristine also has two higher educations: one as a tax accountant and the other as an assistant architect. Together they have a lot of complementary experience and knowledge in all kinds of local and international, commercial and non-commercial tourism and hospitality projects. For example, they ran together for 12 years the renowned hotel-restaurant Hostellerie Kemmelberg ****. Philippe has been involved in photography since the age of 16 and is Google Local Guide Level 8. He is also one of the initiators and president of AstroLAB IRIS. Currently they also lead, among other things, the renovation project of the castle villa "Castel Mino" in the historic Dumont neighborhood of De Panne.

The intention of this website is certainly not to give a complete list of tourist attractions. They stick to things they have visited themselves and/or are so incontournable that you simply must have visited them. These are all things they stand behind 100%. The beauty and quality of "the experience" are always the focus of their attention. So it is a, sometimes quirky, touristic view of this region with a rich past. Enjoy!

You can always contact Philippe & Kristine via our Contact form.

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