VISITOR GUIDE .2020. NORMANDY, A LAND OF CONQUEST! BAYEUX BESSIN 1 D-DAY FESTIVAL 4 FEUX D’ARTIFICE NORMANDY DE LA TOUR VAUBAN PORT-EN-BESSIN-HUPPAIN 2 RENDEZ-VOUS À LA CATHÉDRALE 5 SOIRS D’ÉTÉ À L’ABBAYE 7 LE GOÛT DU LARGE EVENTS ALL BAYEUX DE JUAYE-MONDAYE PORT-EN-BESSIN-HUPPAIN 3 LES MÉDIÉVALES 6 PRIX BAYEUX DES 8 LA CATHÉDRALE YEAR ROUND! DE BAYEUX CORRESPONDANTS DE GUILLAUME DE GUERRE BAYEUX June 1 2 July & August 3 4 5 2 3 EVENTS EVENTS October 6 November 7 December 8 View the full schedule on www.bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com CONTENTS THINGS TO DO GETTING AROUND PAGES PAGES 6to31/41to45 32to40 EATING OUT WHERE TO STAY 4 5 Welcome Bayeux Intercom Tourist Information is delighted to bring you the new 2020 PAGES PAGES WELCOME visitor guide. Whether it’s a holiday or getaway, there’s everything you need to CONTENTS make it unforgettable! Heritage, leisure, food & drink, wellness... get the best out 46to51 52to67 of the international Bayeux Bessin - D-Day Normandy destination! Bessin is an unspoilt land where earth and sea meet in the heart of Normandy, around Bayeux, the medieval town at a stone’s throw from the D-Day beaches. Our friendly team at our Tourist Information centres are here to help you: Seine-Maritime Unearth everything it has to offer as you wander amongst its leafy countryside and lofty cliffs: a town with personality, a fishing port, a magical village or a ARROMANCHES BAYEUX LONGUES-SUR-MER PORT-EN-BESSIN fortified riverside farm... 2 rue Maréchal Joffre Pont Saint Jean Site de la Batterie Quai Baron Gérard Manche Calvados Eure 14117 Arromanches-les-Bains 14400 Bayeux 14400 Longues-sur-Mer 14520 Port-en-Bessin-Huppain Tél. 02 31 22 36 45 Tél. 02 31 51 28 28 Tél. 02 31 21 46 87 Tél. 02 31 22 45 80 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Orne Let’s not forget the world-famous attractions! Bayeux, «the medieval town, gateway to the D-Day beaches» Arromanches, «the D-Day Mulberry Harbour» Port-en-Bessin, «the Bishops’ Harbour» Bayeux Bessin, a quality destination [see page 68] Longues-sur-Mer, «the German Battery featured in The Longest Day» Juaye-Mondaye, «the beautiful Norman abbey» Opening times on www.bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com Produced by Bayeux Intercom Tourist Information. Design: Unik Studio - Caen - Printing: Imprimerie E. VINCENT Photos : Calvados Tourisme, Manche Tourisme, Bayeux Intercom, A Guérin, G. Wait, F. Bonnin, T. Houyel, V. Meigné, P. Lebris, Mr Hollenberg, J. Tack, A. Roland-Gosselin, S. Guichard, S. Maurice - Bayeux Museum, M. Quemener, F. Auclair, JM. Piel, Jakez, Stephanedeve, Imperial War Museum, Eliophot, Sarafossette, Klio Production, R.Corbin / Patrimoine Normand, C. Guibout, F. Levalet, F. Mahaut, P.Plisson, H. Bois, MC Desdoits, M Dehaye, Carels Photography, JM Jansen / Calvados Attractivité, P. Stroppa / Les Filles du Bord de Mer, Fabrice Lerouge/Onoky/Getty Images, Fotolia, Jupiter images, Thinkstock, Istock, Francis Cormon/Overlord museum Aerial. Maps : CRT Normandie (page 30) / Extraits SCAN Régional® - © IGN - 2012 - Licence n°2012-DINO/3-12 - all rights reserved (page 31) This document is for reference only and Bayeux Intercom Tourist Information shall not be held responsible for it. Rates set in December 2019 for the entirety of 2020 may be subject to slight modifications. Accommodation rates stated in the guide do not include holiday tax. BAYEUX G2 4 F1 5 BAYEUX BESSIN, GATEWAY TO THE D-DAY BEACHES LE MÉMORIAL DES REPORTERS This one-of-a-kind site in Europe is SITES devoted to reporters and the free- UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: dom of the press with a scenic trail free entry all year marked by white headstones bea- H1 1 G2 2 G1 3 ring the names of 2000 journalists Rue de Verdun ou who have been killed all over the boulevard Fabian Ware world since 1944. By: Bayeux Coun- 14400 Bayeux cil and Reporters Without Borders. COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER BÉNY-SUR-MER I 2 5 NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY This 70ha cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach. OPENING TIMES CIMETIÈRE 9387 soldiers who fell during the Normandy 01/04 > 30/09: 9am-6pm MILITAIRE Campaign rest in peace here. The Chapel, Me- 01/10 > 31/03: 9am-5pm ARROMANCHES BAYEUX LONGUES-SUR-MER morial and Wall of the Missing honour their Free wheelchair upon request, CANADIEN memory. subject to availability 25/12 & 01/01 ARROMANCHES CIMETIÈRE MILITAIRE BATTERIE ALLEMANDE There are 2049 graves at the Bény- GUIDED TOUR: 30 min. Omaha Beach DE L’OCCUPATION BRITANNIQUE DE LONGUES-SUR-MER sur-Mer cemetery in Reviers inclu- French: 01/04-30/09: 10am & 3pm ding 3 British soldiers and a pilot 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer À LA LIBÉRATION 4144 World War II Commonwealth soldiers are The German gun battery of Longues-sur-Mer for- UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: 01/10-31/03: 3pm 02 31 51 62 00 free entry all year and a French soldier. Most of the English: 01/04-30/09: 11am & 2pm Site of an important German radar station, the buried in the Bayeux British military cemetery. med a key part of the Atlantic Wall and remains [email protected] A sentence in Latin on the Memorial’s pediment one of the most spectacular sites along the D-Day men buried in the cemetery were in 01/10-31/03: 2pm www.abmc.gov small fishing village suffered the Occupation’s 14440 Bény-sur-Mer • 02 31 37 46 80 rd the 3 Canadian Division. UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: free entry all year restrictions. Liberated by the British on 6 June in tribute to the fighters reminds us that the Beaches. Consisting of 4 pillboxes - which today I I 1944, it became the theatre of one of the Allies’ British liberated William the Conqueror’s country still house the original guns - the coastal defence in 1944. battery played a highly strategic role on 6 June greatest military engineering achievements: Port F1 6 E1 7 E1 8 Winston. UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: 1944. 6 90 mins free entry all year 1 hr 7 GUIDED TOUR: Monday to Friday from 6 July Boulevard Fabian Ware - 14400 Bayeux GUIDED TOUR: to 28 August: 2.15pm (French) - 4.15pm (English) 03 21 21 77 00 04/04 > 01/11 week-ends only: Departure from the lookout on Arromanches 360 [email protected] - www.cwgc.org French: 11.30am - 2.15pm - 4.45pm* car park. English: 10.15am - 3.30pm (*until 25/10 only) 06/07 > 28/08 Monday to Friday: 10.15am Cherbourg PRICES: Adult: 5¤ - 11 to 17 years old: 3¤ - Free under 11 • Ticket sale on site and from the tourist office. (English) & 11.30am (French) THINGS TO DO THINGS TO DO THINGS TO DO THINGS TO DO Office de tourisme de Bayeux Intercom UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: free entry all year Bureau d’Arromanches PRICES: Adults: 5¤ - 14117 Arromanches-les-Bains - 02 31 22 36 45 D-Day Landing Children (11-17 years old): 3¤ - Free under 11 CRICQUEVILLE- www.bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com Ticket sale and departure from the tourist office EN-BESSIN GRANDCAMP-MAISY LA CAMBE Beaches Office de Tourisme de Bayeux Intercom Bureau de Longues-sur-Mer 14400 Longues-sur-Mer - 02 31 21 46 87 POINTE DU HOC BATTERIE DE MAISY CIMETIÈRE MILITAIRE UTAH BEACH www.bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com Pointe du Hoc was a strategic site in the German This German battery was an integral part of a mi- ALLEMAND fortifications on the Normandy coast that was litary sector covering Utah and Omaha Beaches. The 7.5ha site was inaugurated on September I nd th nd attacked by Colonel Rudder’s 2 Ranger Batta- The 5 and 2 US Ranger Battalion’s final attack 21st 1961 and is one of six World War II German OMAHA BEACH th LA MANCHE lion on the morning of June 6th 1944. The site on June 9 1944 lasted 5 long hours. Visit 3km of military cemeteries in Normandy. The perma- Sainte-Mère-Église Criqueville- stands 30m above the sea with remnants of the trenches, tunnels and six 155mm artillery plat- nent exhibition was inaugurated on 5 June 2019. en-Bessin Vierville-sur-Mer 21 Sainte-Marie- German artillery battery. forms. du-Mont Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer Close to 21,300 German soldiers who lost their 20 UNACCOMPANIED OR GUIDED TOUR: Colleville-sur-Mer GOLD BEACH UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: free entry all year lives in Normandy rest here. 7 6 Port-en- Site tour with written translations Longues- JUNO BEACH OPENING TIMES UNACCOMPANIED TOUR: free entry all year Grandcamp-Maisy Bessin Arromanches-les-Bains (F, GB, D, NL, I, E, DK) 24 sur-Mer Visitor Centre and tour guide on request. Courseulles- OPENING TIMES Carentan 19 01/04 > 30/09: 9am-6pm PRICES La Cambe 8 5 16 13 sur-Mer 15 3 Winter (31/10-31/03): 9am-5pm 23 SWORD BEACH 01/10 > 31/03: 9am-12.30pm/1.30pm-5pm Adults: 7.20¤ • Children: 4.80¤ • Students: 6¤ 1 10 11 Ver-sur-Mer Free wheelchair upon request, Summer (01/04-31/10): 8am-7pm - Sat/Sun 9am 9 25 OPENING TIMES: subject to availability April, May and September: 10am-4pm between Christmas and New Year’s Day Bayeux 5 01/01 & 25/12 Bény-sur-Mer June, July and August: 10am-6pm RN 13 - 14230 La Cambe 2 4 12 17 14450 Cricqueville-en-Bessin 02 31 22 70 76 Merville- 7 Route des Perruques - 14450 Grandcamp-Maisy Franceville 02 31 51 62 00 [email protected] 18 0044 7411 932 197 - [email protected] Ranville [email protected] www.volksbund.de/home.html www.maisybattery.com www.abmc.gov I I I I f I I 0 5 10 Km Tilly-sur-Seulles 14 I 22 Caen BAYEUX BESSIN, GATEWAY G1 13 To go further..