Gold Beach - Arromanches – Batteries des Longues loop from Arromanches-les-Bains

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Gold Beach - Arromanches – Batteries des Longues loop from Arromanches-les-Bains

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Gold Beach - Arromanches – Batteries des Longues loop from Arromanches-les-Bains

01:46

15.5km

180m

Running

Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 30, 2026

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191 m

Statue of the Virgin Mary

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A brief thought from Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I) about the Mother of God, who is venerated in France under the title Notre-Dame and who stands here on a high column overlooking the landscape:
"Mary is indeed our sister, as Saint Ambrose says. She led a life very similar to ours. It is of course beautiful to venerate Mary as the Virgin and Mother of God, as the one who was conceived immaculately by original sin and taken up into heaven; but she is also the Madonna of plates, brooms and cooking pots..."
The visitor to the small Marian shrine can decide for himself which "Notre-Dame" he would like to venerate here.

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488 m

Sherman Tank Memorial, Arromanches-les-Bains

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Sherman tanks, as a warning and against forgetting.

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538 m

Gold Beach - Arromanches

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The site of one of 5 D-Day landings on June 6th 1844. Also the start of an epic route into the heart of Normandy, Angers. A historic coastline with a great musuem.

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1.09 km

Quai General Leclerc

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2.07 km

View of Arromanches Beach

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Nice view of the beach

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3.34 km

Singletrack along the rugged coastline

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Single track? Yes, mountain bike path? Not really. Parts impassable. More of a hiking trail than a mountain bike trail.

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7.24 km

Batteries des Longues

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A once formidable German coastal battery. Despite the 600 tons of bombs dropped by 124 RAF aircraft on the night of 5/6 June, the four guns were still intact the next morning. At 5:37 am they opened fire. The French cruiser Georges-Leygues was the first to answer the German attack, followed by the Montcalm and the American battleship Arkansas. The battery was not finally silenced until 7 pm by two direct hits from the French cruiser Georges-Leygues. The battery, which stands on a picturesque cliff, had four 150mm guns with a range of 20 km. The observation and command post that stood 300m in front of the bunkers on the edge of the cliff was the scene of one of the most famous scenes from the movie The Longest Day.

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