Arromanches tourism and travel guide
Visit Arromanches: highlights and tourist information
Travel Guide To Visit AttractionsFrance This Way comment: Arromanches is well known as the town where the Mulberry Harbour was built during the D-Day landings in 1944
Important note
This page features a summary of highlights that you might like to explore near Arromanches. For detailed visitor information see the Arromanches travel guide.
Arromanches is situated in the Calvados department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 25 kilometres from Caen, the department capital (general information: Arromanches is 223 kilometres from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Bayeux at 9 km and Normandy landing beaches at 20 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Arromanches, France: places to visit and attractions
Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Arromanches in Normandy.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Calvados
Map of places to visit near Arromanches
Markets in and near Arromanches
- Bayeux: market Wednesday & Saturday (9km)
- Courseulles-sur-Mer: market Tuesday & Friday (12km)
- Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer: market Thursday (17km)
- Tilly-sur-Seulles: market Sunday (18km)
- Douvres-la-Delivrande: market Thursday (18km)
- Le Molay-Littry: market Thursday (21km)
- Caen: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Friday (26km)
- Herouville-Saint-Clair: market Wednesday (26km)
- Ouistreham: market Wednesday & Saturday - seasonal market only (28km)
- Ouistreham: market Thursday & Sunday & Friday (28km)
More information about Arromanches, Normandy
Tourist attractions near Arromanches, France
What to do at Arromanches? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Arromanches.
Most beautiful villages in France
(see also beautiful French villages)
- Beuvron (45km)
Churches and religious monuments
- Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (8km)
- Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (9km)
- Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (10km)
- Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (10km)
- Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (26km)
- Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (28km)
Remarkable gardens
- Jardins du château de Brécy (8km)
- Plantbessin (20km)
- Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (56km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé)
(see also historical French towns)
- Bayeux (9km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Jardin des plantes de Caen (25km)
- Forêt de Cerisy (26km)
- Prairie (Caen) (26km)
- Pegasus Bridge (27km)
- Baie des Veys (38km)
- Roches de Ham (46km)
Villages d'etape
(recommended place to break a long journey)
- Villers-Bocage (29km)
- Torigni-sur-Vire (43km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- Cabourg (37km)
- Domjean (49km)
Zoo and/or wildlife park
- Parc zoologique de Jurques (39km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Arromanches
from Caen (prefecture): 25 km
from Paris: 223 km
from Calais: 251 km
from Nice: 869 km
from Bordeaux: 501 km
from Strasbourg: 616 km
Getting here
Arromanches 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 Arromanches from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 13 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Asnelles, Bazenville, Crepon, Longues-sur-Mer, Magny-en-Bessin, Manvieux, Meuvaines, Ryes, Saint-Come-de-Fresne, Sommervieu, Tracy-sur-Mer, Vaux-sur-Aure and Villiers-le-Sec.
This page in French: Visiter Arromanches
