Your tour begins with a convenient pickup directly at the cruise terminal in Le Havre, followed by a scenic 2-hour drive to your first stop

At the top of the cliff overlooking Gold Beach, the Arromanches 360° Cinema projects one of the most powerful WWII films ever made — a 19-minute circular panoramic film combining original 1944 footage with present-day images of the same locations, displayed simultaneously on nine screens surrounding the audience. There are no seats. You stand at the center of the circular room as the images of June 6, 1944 unfold around you — the ships, the soldiers, the explosions, the liberation — intercut with the same coastline as it looks today, peaceful and green. The contrast is devastating. It is the single most emotionally effective way to understand what happened on these beaches, and it takes only 19 minutes. The cinema sits directly above the ruins of Mulberry Harbor B, still visible in the bay below — the artificial port the Allies assembled in 12 days to supply the liberation of France. After the film, the view from the clifftop puts everything you have just seen into physical context.

Longues-sur-Mer is the only German coastal gun battery in Normandy where the original weapons are still in place — four 155mm naval guns, each weighing several tons, still pointing toward the English Channel exactly as they were positioned on the morning of June 6, 1944. Every other D-Day gun battery in Normandy has empty concrete bunkers. Here, you walk up to the actual weapons that fired on the Allied fleet during the landing. The scale is extraordinary — the guns are massive, the concrete casemates are intact, and the clifftop position above the sea makes it immediately clear why this battery was one of the most strategically important German defensive positions on the entire Normandy coastline. The battery fired on both the Allied fleet and the artificial Mulberry Harbor at Arromanches — just 6 kilometers to the east — until it was neutralized by British naval bombardment and air strikes on the morning of D-Day.

Anschließend geht es weiter nach Omaha Beach und vorbei an der 8 km langen Küste mit Blick auf den Ärmelkanal. An Land finden Sie eine Skulptur namens Les Braves (Die Tapferen) zu Ehren der Soldaten, die im Krieg kämpften. In der Nähe von Omaha Beach besteht die Möglichkeit, für ein schnelles Mittagessen anzuhalten.

Anschließend geht es weiter zum amerikanischen Friedhof in der Normandie, um den Kämpfern der Schlacht die letzte Ehre zu erweisen. Das Besucherzentrum bietet eine ausführliche Ausstellung über den Krieg. Dies ist unser letzter Halt, bevor wir eine zweistündige Fahrt zurück zum Hafen oder Ihrem Hotel antreten.

Return to Le Havre After a full day exploring Normandy’s most important World War II sites, relax on your return journey to Le Havre, arriving back at the cruise terminal.