Sign up for Email Specials. Le Havre: D-Day Beaches - 9 hours. The numerous monuments and memorials on the Normandy coastal area bear witness to the fierce fighting that took place here during and after the D-Day Landings of World War II. Your driver-guide meets you after you have departed your cruise ship and takes you on a full-day tour of the American Sector to visit some of the most important sites of this pivotal point in the war.
Your day starts on the famous coastline at Pointe du Hoc, which the US Rangers scaled, demonstrating a triumph of planning, training and execution by elite and well-led troops. Further eastwards along the coast is the sector known as Omaha Beach, also captured by invading American forces, and where you can examine several sites from both the German and US perspectives.
You also hear about Operation Aquatint, a failed British Commando raid on the area. You are transferred back to your cruise ship from here. Highlights: Saint Paul de Vence , built on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by its ramparts built on the order of Francois 1 st , St Paul is certainly one of the most beautiful villages in Provence.
Then enjoy a visit of Haut de Cagnes , a medieval quarter full of tiny streets, stairs, little restaurants and old houses that gradually descend down and blend with the modern lower city. Gourdon clings to the summit of a breathtakingly steep cliff at a height of m and offers an unobstructed view of the Gorges du Loup and the Mediterranean.
Elegant and simple, Nice's charm comes from its exceptional climate as well as its beauty. Always in flower this wonderful walk follows along the bay, looking out onto the Baie des Anges and the beaches on one side, and on the other such luxury hotels as the Negresco. From Nice, take the Corniche road to Eze , a medieval village perched like an eagles nest on a narrow rocky peak overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
