Editing Ypres (section)

===Ypres today===
[[Image:Fountain-grote-markt-ieper.redvers.jpg|thumb|The fountain in the Grote Markt, Ypres, opposite the Cloth Hall]]

After the war the town was  extensively rebuilt using money paid by Germany in [[World War I reparations|reparations]], with the main square, including the Cloth Hall and town hall, being rebuilt as close to the original designs as possible (the rest of the rebuilt town is more modern in appearance). The Cloth Hall today is home to [[In Flanders Fields Museum]], dedicated to Ypres's role in the First World War and named for the [[In Flanders Fields|poem]] by [[John McCrae]].

Ypres is a small city in the very western part of Belgium, the so-called ''Westhoek''. Ypres these days{{when|date=January 2022}} has the title of "city of peace" and maintains a close friendship with another town on which war had a profound impact: [[Hiroshima]]. Both towns witnessed warfare at its worst: Ypres was one of the first places where [[chemical warfare]] was [[Second Battle of Ypres|employed]], while Hiroshima suffered the debut of [[nuclear warfare]]. The city governments of Ypres and Hiroshima advocate{{where|date=January 2022}} that cities should never be targets again and campaign{{example needed|date=January 2022}} for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Ypres hosts the international campaign secretariat of [[Mayors for Peace]], an international Mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.2020visioncampaign.org |title=Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign |website=2020visioncampaign.org |access-date=2013-09-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418083236/http://www.2020visioncampaign.org/ |archive-date=18 April 2011}}</ref>