This town, locally called "Port" for short, is located in a cove between the marl cliffs. It's a bustling harbor town, all the more picturesque for its cramped space. Scallops …
A once formidable German coastal battery. Despite the 600 tons of bombs dropped by 124 RAF aircraft on the night of 5/6 June, the four guns were still intact the …
The site of one of 5 D-Day landings on June 6th 1844. Also the start of an epic route into the heart of Normandy, Angers. A historic coastline with a great musuem.
A small old town worth seeing, which was the first to be liberated without destruction in the Second World War. It still has a lot of old historical buildings with lots of half-timbering and the Norman cathedral.
The beach at Arromanches-les-Bains is still dotted with ghostly concrete floats, a reminder of the technical feat of the Allies on 7 June 1944: in a few days they built …