France Travel Guide:

Best Places to Visit in Normandy Region

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This peaceful looking coastline at Point du Hoc was the site of one of the deadliest battles on D-Day.

Background for your tour of the Invasion Beaches

Although the Normandy region of France is blessed with a large number of historically important and interesting attractions, the majority of tourists come to see the World War II invasion beaches (Les Plages du Débarquement -The Invasion Beaches) that were memorialized on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The Normandy area is an open-air classroom focused on the opening of the European Front during World War II.  There is much to see, do and think about.

If you are intent on visiting the invasion beaches and want to familiarize yourself with this important aspect of history, plan on spending three days wandering the many sites that commemorate D-Day. Visiting the invasion beaches is a hauntingly sad but vitally interesting trip. However, consider mixing in local flavor by visiting the other sites in Normandy that are recommended on the menu at the lower  left. 

If you have entered our Normandy Guide on this page, we suggest you take some time to read our Normandy Overview and familiarize yourself with the geography of this interesting area  of France.

 If you have read that information,  Continue to the next page.

The guns at Longues-sur-Mer were positioned to shell Omaha Beach and Gold Beach on the Normandy coastline.

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Looking toward Omaha Beach from the inside of a German bunker