Normandy, France · Europe
Hérouville-Saint-Clair is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Giberville, 27km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Hérouville-Saint-Clair is in Normandy, France, with about 24,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Giberville, about 4 km away.
Hérouville-Saint-Clair (French pronunciation: [eʁuvil sɛ̃ klɛːʁ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
It is a suburb of the city of Caen, and lies adjacent to it in a northeasterly direction, along the west side of the Canal de Caen à la Mer. Its inhabitants areRead more
called Hérouvillais.
Just across the canal from Hérouville is a Renault Trucks manufacturing plant, which is situated between the canal and the river Orne. Just east of the river is the town of Colombelles.
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Within an hour or so of Hérouville-Saint-Clair: D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) (27 km), Bayeux Tapestry Museum (30 km), Bayeux Cathedral (30 km), Deauville Beach (32 km).
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Hérouville-Saint-Clair is in Normandy, France, about 4 km from Giberville.
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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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
30 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
30 km · about 35 min drive
beach
Glamorous Belle Époque seaside resort with parasol-dotted sands and the famous wooden boardwalk.
32 km · about 35 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A miniature Alps of green gorges and rocky bluffs along the River Orne, beloved by drivers and climbers.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
43 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
45 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A picturesque Normandy port with tall, narrow slate-fronted houses lining the Vieux Bassin, beloved by Impressionist painters.
45 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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