Normandy Landing beaches tour
A whole day to discover the Caen Mémorial museum and the major Landing sites! A tour guide, trained by our historians, will accompany your bus for a five-hour tour starting from the Mémorial. (guide dropped off at the museum after the bus tour.)
This package includes:
Morning: visit the Caen Mémorial museum
Lunch: at “Les Pommiers” buffet restaurant
Afternoon: guided tour of the D-Day Landing beaches - Visit Normandy Beaches (5h)
Sites of interest visited
La Pointe du Hoc: on June 6th 1944 at 7:11 am, the 225 men of Lieutenant colonel James Rudder's 2nd Rangers batallion landed on the shingle shore at the bottom of the cliff.
Omaha Beach: also called “Bloody Omaha”, there the allies suffered the highest number of casualties. The 5th army corps of the general Gerow was chosen to land there.
The American war cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer: this 70-hectare site was granted for life by France to the United States. It shelters the bodies of the Americans soldiers who died during the D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy. 9 387 white marble gravestones are perfectly aligned on the field overlooking Omaha beach.
“The 100 Days of the Battle of Normandy”: film projection at Arromanches 360 circular cinema.
Rates:
Entrance to Caen Mémorial + lunch + Landing Beaches guided tour: €54 per person
Guided tour of the museum: supplement of €4.20 per person
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