Ver-sur-Mer works well as a base: 10 minutes from Creully, 7km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Ver-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, with about 1,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Creully, about 5 km away.
Ver-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Ver on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department and Normandy region of north-western France. It is situated at the eastern end of Gold Beach between Arromanches and Courseulles. The town lies 20 km north-west of Caen and 14 km north-east of Bayeux.
AsRead more well as its beach, the village has a bakery, pony club, sailing club, shrimp fishery, small supermarket, tennis court, and youth hostel. It is also home to the America Gold Beach Museum. Ver-sur-Mer lighthouse, still active today, was built in 1908 on the heights above the beach. During World War II, Canadian troops swiftly seized the lighthouse; however, it was badly damaged and had to be restored after the end of the war.
Ver-sur-Mer's church, which was constructed between the 10th and 12th centuries, is dedicated to Saint Martin.
Within an hour or so of Ver-sur-Mer: D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) (7 km), Bayeux Tapestry Museum (14 km), Bayeux Cathedral (14 km), Normandy American Cemetery (24 km).
Are there any good drives near Ver-sur-Mer?
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Where is Ver-sur-Mer?
Ver-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, about 5 km from Creully.
Road trip
Drive to Ver-sur-Mer
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
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.
7 km · about 10 min drive
museum
Bayeux Tapestry Museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
14 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
Bayeux Cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Normandy American Cemetery
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
24 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Omaha Beach
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
25 km · about 30 min drive
film location
Omaha Beach, Normandy (Saving Private Ryan's landings)
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.
25 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Pointe du Hoc
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
34 km · about 40 min drive
beach
Deauville Beach
Glamorous Belle Époque seaside resort with parasol-dotted sands and the famous wooden boardwalk.
44 km · about 50 min drive
Driving roads near Ver-sur-Mer
Right hereD-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514)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.
34 kmPointe du HocCratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
47 kmSuisse NormandeA miniature Alps of green gorges and rocky bluffs along the River Orne, beloved by drivers and climbers.
59 kmPont de NormandieA soaring cable-stayed bridge leaping 2 km across the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur; on opening in 1995 its 856 m main span was the longest of its kind in the world.