Arromanches

The artificial port, a real technical feat and a challenge to time…

“Since we have no ports, we’ll bring our own,” declared Churchill shortly before the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944.

In the space of just eight days, Arromanches-les-Bains was transformed into a world-class artificial harbour:

• 8 kilometers of harbor
• 9,000 tonnes of equipment unloaded every day
• More than 100 Phoenix concrete boxes
• 6 kilometers of floating roads

On the beach at Arromanches, you can still admire the impressive remains of Port Winston, concrete testimony to this incredible technical feat devised to support Allied troops.

Also worth seeing are the“Arromanches 360°” circular cinema, where you can relive the incredible hours of June 6, 1944, and the D-Day Museum (photos, models, equipment, weapons, etc.).

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