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Ideal for:
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5
Key features:
Excellent base to explore WWII Landing beaches. Top Tip:
Why not visit Houlgate Market - A lovely resort with a great market selling local produce!
Excellent base to explore WWII Landing beaches. Top Tip:
Why not visit Houlgate Market - A lovely resort with a great market selling local produce!
School & College Tours to Normandy
One of the best loved regions of France, Normandy is lush and well cultivated and an ideal destination for school tours. The local cuisine is delicious with plenty of reliance on apples, local cider, seafood cream, and the famous Calvados liqueur "Le Trou Normand".
There are some tremendous excursions here with particular relevance to English history. Bayeux, Rouen and Mont St Michel are showpieces of French tourism, as are the landing beaches and memorials of the Second World War. Located close to home Normandy is a fantastic destination for school groups.
Top 5 Normandy Excursions
- Arromanches Landing Museum & 360 Cinema - The museum is dedicated to advances made by the Allies after the D Day landings.
- D Day Landing Beaches - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
- WWII Cemeteries - Many can be found across Normandy. The main British cemetery is at Bayeux and the American cemetery at Omaha.
- Bayeux & Tapestry Museum - A lovely medieval town with beautiful mansions and the Norman/Gothic Notre Dame Cathedral. The tapestry is a unique masterpiece depicting William's conquest of England.
- Cheese farms - Visit a working cheese farm and learn about cheese production.
