Normandy Tours

Normandy Tour Gallery

The landing beaches from west to east, then Bayeux and Mont-Saint-Michel, in the order a week of day trips would take you. Planning a Normandy tour? These are the places the days go.

The set opens inland from Utah Beach, at the church in Sainte-Mère-Église where a paratrooper figure still hangs from the tower. Then come the dunes of Utah Beach and the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, where the bomb craters still pit the grass. Steel wings stand on the sand at Omaha Beach, and above it rows of white crosses run under the pines to the sea.

East of Omaha, a German naval gun sits in its casemate at Longues-sur-Mer, and the Canadian dead lie at Bény-sur-Mer, inland from Juno Beach. The last frames leave the coast: the Gothic spires of the cathedral in Bayeux, then Mont-Saint-Michel from the road across the salt meadows, with sheep grazing below it.