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Reservations for the 80th anniversary of the landing are closed. The remaining places are intended for passing customers.

 

Located on the road to the beaches of the Landing beaches, between Arromanches and Ohama Beach, Camping** de La Prairie in Port en Bessin will be the ideal starting point for exploring the thousand faces of Calvados, between sea and bocage.

The American Cemetery

A necropolis in memory of American soldiers who died on French soil...

 

Overlooking Omaha Beach, the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer houses 9,387 white headstones, perfectly aligned on the lawns, housing the remains of American soldiers who died during the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.

On one side, the cemetery itself, on the other a monumental memorial, made up of a neo-Greek peristyle, a bronze statue 7 meters high symbolizing the Soul of American youth, a "garden of the disappeared" and a body of water.

Every day, at 4.30 p.m., visitors attend the ceremony of colours, a solemn and moving moment.

 

Photo credits: CALVADOS-TOURISME