Explore Bayeux

Bayeux Cathedral, Notre-Dame de Bayeux, is the Catholic cathedral of Bayeux, consecrated in 1077 by Bishop Odo in the presence of his half-brother William the Conqueror. Its Romanesque crypt and west towers survive from that church, the towers later given Gothic spires, while the nave and choir are mostly Gothic work of the 12th to 15th centuries.

Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France, with 4,648 graves, most of them soldiers killed in the Battle of Normandy in 1944, as well as over 500 graves of other nationalities. Rows of white headstones surround a Cross of Sacrifice by Sir Reginald Blomfield; the Bayeux Memorial to the missing stands opposite.

Arromanches 360 is a circular cinema on the clifftop above Arromanches-les-Bains, overlooking the remains of the Mulberry harbour the Allies built after D-Day. The round hall was built in 1994 for the 50th anniversary of the landings; run by the Mémorial de Caen, it shows a 20-minute archive film on nine screens about the 100 days of the Battle of Normandy.

The Overlord Museum in Colleville-sur-Mer, opened in 2013 near Omaha Beach and the Normandy American Cemetery, covers the Battle of Normandy from the D-Day landings to the liberation of Paris. Its collection of more than 10,000 objects includes some 40 tanks, vehicles and guns, shown in life-size scenes with uniformed figures.