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Bayeux works well as a base: 15 minutes from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, 9km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Bayeux is in Normandy, France, with about 16,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, about 8 km away.
Bayeux (UK: , US: B(A)Y-yoo; French: [bajø] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Bayeux Cathedral preserved the tapestry for centuries. It is also known asRead more
the first major town secured by the Allies during Operation Overlord after D-Day. Charles de Gaulle made two famous speeches in this town.
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Within an hour or so of Bayeux: D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) (9 km), Normandy American Cemetery (14 km), Omaha Beach (16 km), Omaha Beach, Normandy (Saving Private Ryan's landings) (16 km).
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Bayeux is in Normandy, France, about 8 km from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain.
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Full driving guide for France8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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.
9 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
16 km · about 30 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.
16 km · about 20 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
25 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A miniature Alps of green gorges and rocky bluffs along the River Orne, beloved by drivers and climbers.
45 km · about 50 min drive
beach
Glamorous Belle Époque seaside resort with parasol-dotted sands and the famous wooden boardwalk.
57 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
One of France's 'most beautiful villages', a granite fishing port on the Cotentin's rugged eastern shore.
60 km · about 70 min drive
April to October
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