Normandy

Highlights & Suggested Itineraries

Normandy is a land of tradition, of quintessential grey farmhouses rising out of rolling green pastures, of black-berried hedgerows lining patchwork fields of artichokes, cauliflower and corn.

It's a land of apples and crustaceans, of generous meals, half-timbered houses and honest fishing villages where deep rural countryside meets the bracing sea.

Normandy is a land steeped in history, the subject of successive invasions and decisive battles, a place where monasteries rise up from the sea and where tapestries recount historical watersheds.

Suggested Itineraries in Normandy

At 7:10am on June 6 1944, 225 US Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot (30m) cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, where the Germans had a battery of huge artillery guns.

The site, which France turned over to the US Government in 1979, looks much as it did half a century ago. The ground is still pockmarked with bomb craters. Visitors can walk among and inside the German fortifications, but they are warned not to dig: mines and explosive materials may remain below the surface.

Normandy WWII Tours

The Landing Beaches at Normandy from Bayeux From USD $114.34
USA WWII Beaches Tour From USD $70.36
Canadian World War II Sites From USD $62.54
Canadian World War II Sites & American Beaches From USD $117.26

Suggested Itineraries: Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach is the most well-known Allied point of landing in Normandy on D-Day. Viator has many different combinations of tours to see all of these historic battle locations.

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