2nd Armored Division Monument – Sainte-Mère-Église Church loop from Sainte-Mère-Église

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2nd Armored Division Monument – Sainte-Mère-Église Church loop from Sainte-Mère-Église

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2nd Armored Division Monument – Sainte-Mère-Église Church loop from Sainte-Mère-Église

02:57

53.1km

180m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 16, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 30.4 km for 108 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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13.0 km

Crisbecq Battery (Saint-Marcouf)

Highlight • Historical Site

It is one of the German batteries of the Atlantic Wall, the most powerful of the D-Day beaches. You can visit no fewer than 22 blockhouses and learn more about this strategic site from which the first cannon shot was fired at dawn on June 6, 1944.

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18.5 km

Beach

20.6 km

Ravenoville Beach and Redoubt

Highlight • Beach

Fort Ravenoville (19th century), built on an old square masonry redoubt dating from 1689. The enclosure as well as the old interior guardhouse have been profoundly modified. The remains of the vast "Widerstandsnest 14" next door date from the Nazi-German Atlantic Wall.

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26.0 km

2nd Armored Division Monument

Highlight • Monument

This memorial is part of a group of monuments which pay tribute to the heroes of the landing. It was erected by the Normandy landing committee and represents General Leclerc in tank uniform.

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26.5 km

View of Saint-Vaast from Saint-Martin-de-Varreville Beach

Highlight • Beach

29.9 km

Utah Beach

Highlight • Beach

The tranquility of this beach makes it difficult to imagine the events of June 1944. The armored vehicles and soldiers of that time have made way for oyster beds, birds and walkers.

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34.6 km

Major Richard D Winters Memorial

Highlight • Monument

If you like World War II history and the Band of Brothers series, you may want to visit the Major Richard D Winters Memorial, a monument dedicated to the memory of all junior officers of the United States Army who served on D-Day. The monument is a 12-foot-high statue. The monument is a 12-foot-tall statue of Major Winters, who led Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division in several battles in Europe. The monument is located on the D913 between Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and Utah Beach, two of the landing sites of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The monument bears an inscription that reads: "Wars do not make men great, but they bring out the greatness of good men."

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46.0 km

Camp geronimo (Sainte-Mère-Eglise)

Highlight • Other

It feels like it, really not to be missed in June. In memory of our saviors.

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46.5 km

Sainte-Mère-Église Church

Highlight • Religious Site

During the night of June 5, 1944. A fire raged in this village. Everyone helps put out the fire. The light of the fire was then interpreted by an American plane pilot as being a sign that these passengers had been released. American paratroopers land by mistake in the town.

One of the paratroopers is carried by his parachute onto the church tower where he remains hanging for hours, while the fighting rages below him. This is one of the most incongruous stories of the landing of June 6, 1944. You discover this in this town that has become legendary for history buffs.

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53.1 km

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Parking

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