Explorer 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.