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Longues-sur-Mer Battery
The only German coastal battery in Normandy that still has its guns, in concrete casemates on the cliff.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Longues-sur-Mer, 14400 CalvadosDirections
- Getting There
- About 15 minutes by car north of Bayeux.
Why Go
Four 150-millimeter guns of the Atlantic Wall stand in their bunkers, aimed out to sea, with the command post on the cliff edge. They fired on the fleet on D-Day until warships knocked them out.
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