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One of France's 'most beautiful villages', a granite fishing port on the Cotentin's rugged eastern shore.
9 km · about 15 min drive
Normandy, France · Europe
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Réville, 54km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is a town located in Normandy, France. With a population of 2,144, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue 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 Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue to your route.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ va la uɡ]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
It is particularly known for being a major site of fortifications designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban:
the watchtowers of Tatihou and La Hougue having been listed in 2008 asRead more
part of the Fortifications of Vauban UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue was awarded "2 flowers" by the concours des villes et villages fleuris contest and the town was elected "favourite French village 2019" in a television programme broadcast on France 3 in 2019.
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Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is located in Normandy, France, Europe. The coordinates are 49.5861 latitude, -1.2644 longitude.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue has a population of approximately 2,144 people, making it a town in France.
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landmark
One of France's 'most beautiful villages', a granite fishing port on the Cotentin's rugged eastern shore.
9 km · about 15 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
38 km · about 45 min drive
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Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
39 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Wild granite cape at Normandy's northwest tip with a lonely lighthouse and crashing Atlantic seas.
51 km · about 60 min drive
museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
53 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
53 km · about 60 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.
54 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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