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.

بعد ذلك، توجه إلى شاطئ أوماها واعبر مسافة ٨ كيلومترات من ساحل القناة الإنجليزية. ستجد على الشاطئ تمثالًا يُدعى Les Braves (الشجعان) تكريمًا للجنود الذين خاضوا الحرب. ستكون هناك فرصة للتوقف لتناول غداء سريع بالقرب من شاطئ أوماها.

بعد ذلك، نواصل الجولة إلى مقبرة نورماندي الأمريكية لتكريم المقاتلين الذين شاركوا في المعركة. يقدم مركز الزوار معرضًا تفصيليًا عن الحرب. ستكون هذه هي محطتنا الأخيرة قبل التوجه إلى رحلة بالسيارة لمدة ساعتين للعودة إلى الميناء أو الفندق.

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.