From cider to battlefields to medieval towns to calvados, there is such a broad range of interesting things to do in Normandy ...

Nestled along the Seine River of northern France is a charming seaside town steeped in maritime traditions. This picturesque port town, Honfleur, is known for its stone and half-timbered houses and ...

Churches in Normandy, ... "For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie," Paul Renaud, a 14-year-old resident of the Norman town of Sainte Mere Eglise on D-Day, ...

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Shortly after D-Day in 1944, the American soldiers heading out to more fighting against Adolf Hitler's forces could ...

Although towns held remembrances locally, she noted that it wasn't until 2014 that a French president — Macron's predecessor, François Hollande — paid national homage to Normandy's civilian dead.

U.S. soldiers stand on the remains of a house as they inspect damage in Carentan, in the Normandy region of France, June 15, 1944. The 80th anniversary this week of D-Day is a mixed bag of ...

FILE – British Commandos pass through the streets of a town near Caen, in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Following the initial landings on the French coast, Allied troops at once began to ...

The 6-year-old boy had never seen the strange fruits before, ... recalling how the Normandy town became emblematic of losses from Allied bombing when it was razed on June 6 and 7, 1944.

Ruined Normandy towns count their dead. Some 20,000 Normandy civilians were killed in the invasion and as Allied forces fought their way inland, sometimes field-by-field through the leafy Normandy ...