Normandy

(Mileage is estimated distance from each preceeding city or site.)

CAEN (150 miles from Paris): Abbaye aux Hommes, Abbaye aux Dames, Château and Fine Arts Museum, Normandy Museum, The Memorial: A Museum for Peace.
BENOUVILLE (5 miles): Airborne Troops Museum; Gondrée House, first in France liberated.
OUISTREHAM (3 miles): Landing Museum, Atlantic Wall Museum.
COURSEULLES-SUR-MER (10 miles): Canadian landing beach, Churchill, de Gaulle and George VI came ashore after Invasion; famous oysters.
ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS (9 miles): Landing Museum.
LONGUES-SUR-MER (3 miles): Complete German battery post.
PORT-EN-BESSIN (3 miles): Liberated fishing village; 17th-century tower, German blockhouse, Museum of Undersea Invasion Wrecks.
ST-LAURENT-SUR-MER (7 miles): 170-acre American Cemetery overlooking OMAHA BEACH.
POINTE-DU-HOC (5 miles): Still bears the scars of fierce battle wages by the US Army Rangers.
GRANDCAMP-MAISY (14 miles): Rangers Museum; famous seafood restaurants.
STE-MARIE-DU-MONT (22 miles): Delightful village, 12th-century church; nearby UTAH BEACH Invasion Museum.
QUINEVILLE (12 miles): Liberty Museum of German Occupation.
STE-MERE-L'EGLISE (11 miles): Airborne Troops Museum; Cotentin Farm Museum.
ST-LO (28 miles): Lovely countryside, Cerisy Forest, Romanesque Abbey, Château Balleroy.
BAYEUX (27 miles): Old town, 15th- to 18th-century houses, Cathedral, Tapestry of Queen Mathilda, Battle of Normandy Memorial Museum.

PONT L'EVEQUE (32 miles from Caen): Cheese village; moated 18th-century château at ST-ANDRE-D'HEBERTOT.
LISIEUX (11 miles): Saint Teresa House, 13th-century cathedral, Museum of Old Lisieux. Nearby Château St-Germain-de-Livet.
LIVAROT (13 miles): Old houses, cheesemaking exhibit.
VIMOUTIERS (6 miles): Camembert Museum.
CAMEMBERT (3 miles): Birthplace of the cheese, local farm products.
ST-PIERRE-SUR-DIVES (15 miles): 12th-century abbey, 11th-century covered market, nearby Château Vendeuvre, Museum of Miniature Furniture.
CREVECOEUR-EN-AUGE (8 miles): Cr&egrav;vecoeur Manor, cider and calvados.
BEUVRON-EN-AUGE (8 miles): Showpiece half-timbered village and market.