Normandy

NORMANDY INVASION ITINERARY (Circuit du Débarquement)

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(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.

PAYS D'AUGE ITINERARY (Routes du Fromage et du Cidre)

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

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.