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Bernières-sur-Mer is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Langrune-sur-Mer, 14km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Bernières-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, with about 2,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Langrune-sur-Mer, about 4 km away.
Bernières-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnjɛʁ syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Bernières on Sea), in the arrondissement of Caen, is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy, in northwestern France. It is part of the canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer. It lies on the English Channel coast, 3 km east of Courseulles-sur-Mer,Read more
and 17 km north of Caen.
Bernières-sur-Mer is one of the oldest towns of the Côte de Nacre. Gallo-Roman traces are scattered on the territory of the municipality, and are visible in the cliffs of the "Cape Romain" east of the town. The Middle Ages saw the prosperity of Bernières - enjoying the magnificence of William the Conqueror. The Church of Bernières illustrates perfectly evolution of the region during the first half of the second millennium. In the early 20th century, served by the railway, its hotels and sandy beach, surrounded by dunes and the embankment welcomed visitors from across France.
The town was liberated by The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on 6 June 1944 as part of the leading assault wave of D-Day Operation Overlord. Later, Le Régiment de la Chaudière, landed in reserve as part of the 8th Canadian Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division. The remains of the Atlantic Wall are still visible and are a place of remembrance where Berniérais honor each year the memory of the Canadians.
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Within an hour or so of Bernières-sur-Mer: D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) (14 km), Bayeux Tapestry Museum (21 km), Bayeux Cathedral (21 km), Normandy American Cemetery (31 km).
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Bernières-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, about 4 km from Langrune-sur-Mer.
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coastal drive
The coast road threading the five 1944 landing beaches from Utah to Sword, past Arromanches' Mulberry harbour remains, gun batteries and memorials: Normandy's essential remembrance drive.
14 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
21 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
31 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
33 km · about 40 min drive
film location
The D-Day beach whose assault opens Saving Private Ryan; the film shot in Ireland but the real site and its memorials are the destination.
33 km · about 40 min drive
beach
Glamorous Belle Époque seaside resort with parasol-dotted sands and the famous wooden boardwalk.
36 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
42 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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