In central Zonnebeke village, Kasteel Zonnebeke is a lake-fronted Normandy chalet-style mansion built in 1922 to replace a castle bombarded into rubble during WWI. It hosts a tourist office, cafe and particularly polished WWI museum charting local battle progressions with plenty of multilingual commentaries. The big attraction here is descending into its multiroom ‘trench experience’ with low-lit, wooden-clad subterranean bunk rooms and a soundtrack. Explanations are much more helpful here than in ‘real’ trenches elsewhere.
