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Fort Napoleon
Fort Napoleon was built in 1811. In World War I and World War II it was the artillery-headquarters of the German army.
Nowadays the fort is restored and open to the public.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Arjan Vrieze
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Museum
Point of interest
- City Museum Ostend - Oostende
- German Transformer Bunker Oostende - Oostende
- German Mausoleum Cemetery Leffinge - Leffinge (Middelkerke)
Monument
- Memorial H.M.S. Vindictive - Oostende
- Memorial Belgian Commandos - Oostende
- Memorial Sir Bernard Montgomery - Oostende
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Graves Bredene - Bredene
- Dutch War Graves Oostende - Oostende
- Commonwealth War Graves Oostende - Oostende
Fortification
- Hundius Battery Oostende - Oostende
- German Mortar Bunker - Oostende
- German Luftschutzbunker barracks Bootsman Jonsen - Oostende
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