Normandy landing beaches travel guide
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Visit Normandy landing beaches: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Normandy landing beaches is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 44 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Normandy landing beaches is 243 km from Paris and 262 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Normandy landing beaches
Popular places to visit near Normandy landing beaches: these include Bayeux at 17 km and Arromanches at 20 km.
Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km and Plantbessin is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 20km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Normandy landing beaches, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Normandy landing beaches
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Normandy landing beaches.
Note that all distances from Normandy landing beaches shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Normandy landing beaches holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Normandy landing beaches (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Normandy and Calvados gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Normandy landing beaches and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Plantbessin (20km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (26km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Barfleur (42km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (18km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (20km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (26km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (26km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (26km) : Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Domjean (44km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Valognes (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Normandy landing beaches & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Plages du débarquement
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: na
Distance to Normandy landing beaches
from Caen: 44 km
from Paris: 243 km
from Calais: 262 km
from Nice: 886 km
from Bordeaux: 505 km
from Strasbourg: 636 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Normandy landing beaches): Asnieres-en-Bessin, Colleville-sur-Mer, Deux-Jumeaux, Ecrammeville, Englesqueville-la-Percee, Formigny, Longueville, Louvieres, Russy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Sainte-Honorine-Des-Pertes, Surrain and Vierville-sur-Mer.
Getting here
Calvados is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive by car typically by ferry into Cherbourg or Caen on the Normandy coast For driving distances to Normandy landing beaches from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Normandy landing beaches