Sehenswürdigkeiten in Westende

Shipping company Seastar offers numerous (educational) excursions for young and old, both in Nieuwpoort and along the ‘Flanders Fields’ in ‘de Westhoek’.

Visit the equestrian statue of Albert I and discover the story of the flooding of the polder plain during World War I.

In diesem wunderschönen Naturschutzgebiet ereignet sich ein einzigartiges Phänomen. Die Ijzer ist der einzige belgische Fluss, der direkt in die Nordsee mündet.

Whether you’re crazy about architecture or not, you cannot leave Westende without visiting the Grand Hôtel Belle Vue, AKA The Rotunda; thé city’s icon!

Japan has never been this close! You don't have to fly for hours to get there. In Ostend is the Japanese Garden Shin Kai Tei.

If you fancy some variety, you can put the sea aside for a few hours and go on a hike through the nature of Raversyde Nature Park.

The Mercator is a large sailing ship that has made 41 voyages in almost every ocean. Visit this three-master and learn all about her scientific mission.

Visit the fort that Napoleon had made in 1811, for fear of a British attack on the port of Ostend. But it never got that far...

Catching shrimp on horseback, that can't be anything but a special sight. In Oostduinkerke you can be there and experience this spectacle!

The Warande Tower offers a 360-degree view of the sculpture park, the coastline, the Warande Dunes and the hinterland of Middelkerke.

With this work of art, the artist Jan Fabre emphasised that human beings continue to search for Utopia throughout their lives.

Exactly 110 years after Adrien de Gerlache's legendary Antarctic expedition, Nieuwpoort-born polar explorer Dirk 'Dixie' Dansercoer repeated this journey in 2007.

By letting this work of art undergo a game of ebb and flow, Danish artist Nina Beier questions male power with Men.

Nieuwpoort, 17th century. Jeanne Panne, a working-class woman living and working in the city, is wrongly accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake.