Office de Tourisme Cassel Horizons

The small town of Cassel, the highest point in Flanders, majestically overlooks the Flemish plain from its height of 176 metres.

The city has a rich past, from the first Celtic inhabitants to Louis XIV, who definitively annexed part of Flanders in 1677.

During the battle of Ypres in the First World War, Marshal Foch held his headquarters here. From this past, it has kept its structure as a walled town, with its narrow streets, collegial church, old town houses and windmill, which still produces flour.