scenic viewpoint
Pointe du Hoc
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
21 km · about 25 min drive
Normandy, France · Europe
Carentan is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Isigny-sur-Mer, 46km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Carentan is a town located in Normandy, France. With a population of 6,950, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Carentan sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Carentan to your route.
Carentan (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃tɑ̃]) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France, with a population of about 6,000. It is a former commune in the Manche department. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune ofRead more
Carentan-les-Marais. The town was a strategic early goal of the World War II landings as capturing the town was necessary to link the lodgements at Utah Beach and Omaha Beach which were divided by the Douve river estuary (nearby fields were flooded by the Germans up to the town's outskirts). The town was also needed as an intermediate staging position for the capture of the cities of Cherbourg and Octeville, with the critically important port facilities in Cherbourg.
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Carentan is located in Normandy, France, Europe. The coordinates are 49.3031 latitude, -1.2481 longitude.
Carentan has a population of approximately 6,950 people, making it a town in France.
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scenic viewpoint
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
21 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
29 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
40 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
40 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
One of France's 'most beautiful villages', a granite fishing port on the Cotentin's rugged eastern shore.
41 km · about 45 min 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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