Impressions of a Cherbourg Harbor Tour History King Louis XIV. decided to build a naval port in Cherbourg to better protect merchant shipping against the British. One began to build huge wooden boxes filled with stones, which were sunk. It turned out, however, that this method was doomed to fail because the wooden structures could not […]
Cherbourg – Normandy
Cherbourg, the port city on the northern tip of the Cotentin peninsula, is influenced by its location to the sea and by shipping. History of Cherbourg The city became internationally known by the movie “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) with Catherine Deneuve from the year 1964. But the history goes further into […]
The coast of Normandy
The coast of Normandy has wonderful flat sandy beaches. Up to 30 m high rock faces that are rarely broken by small valleys, raise just behind. Fertile arable land and extensive orchards form the hinterland. In between you see small villages with narrow streets and various half-timbered architecture. However, the coast is associated with the […]
Juno Beach – A historical place in Normandy
Juno Beach Juno Beach is a beautiful beach section in Normandy between Courseulles-sur-Mer and La Rivière Ver-sur-Mer. It became famous for the Allied invasion at D-Day in WW2. This section of beach had been assigned to the Canadian troops. It lay between the two sections of the British Sword and Gold. Juno Beach was is […]
Ouistreham – Normandy
Ouistreham serves as port of Caen; both places are connected by the Caen canal. Since 1986, it serves as well as a ferry port for ferries to England. World War II During the landing of the allied troops in World War II, Ouistreham belongs to the beach section Sword-Beach, which was assigned to the French […]