Juno Beach Centre Normandy

Courseulles-sur-Mer Normandy , France
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    30 reviews 15 travel blogs 13 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Monument, History museum

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  • 1

    I love Normandy. There. I said it.

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    Normandy is such a wonderful place. It's beautiful here....sort of like the outer banks of NC were 40 years ago. Still remote, but with enough history to make it interesting to be there.

    We met a German guy while bunker hopping.....he and Laurie discussed issues of the war from different perspectives. His daughter is married to a football …

  • 2

    Bayeux, Normandy, and Mont Saint Michel

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    Our train took us from Lausanne to Bayeux, France through Paris. We had to change from one train station to another one a few miles away by using the Metro (subway). It seemed pretty scary but it all worked out very well (and quickly) since there were lots of signs.
    When we got to Bayeux we had supper at a small cafe beside the train station. …

Related BlogsJuno Beach Centre Normandy

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    Juno Beach

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    ... Juno Beach is about a 8km stretch of the coast centred around the town of Courseulles. This is also the location of Canada's Juno Beach Centre. It only opened a couple of years ago so the displays and such are still in good shape and there is a feeling ...

  • 2

    a victory but at a great cost

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    Courseulles-sur-Mer is the small seaside village where the Canadians landed during D-Day and is also home to the Juno Beach Centre, a Canadian museum celebrating Canada and it's effort to end the war. There was a steady stream of Canadians and other ...

  • 3

    Bastille Day

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    ... is actually very beautiful. I can see why the locals might rather have kept their camp ground where the Canadians built the Juno Beach Centre. Images of Canadian boys being cut down along the shore were in my mind as I looked out and imagined all the ...

  • 4

    Caen and The Coffin Ship

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    ... if any were suspected. Most emotionally I saw a child on Juno Beach who topped his sandcastle with a Canadian flag. We went to the Juno Beach Centre and were kicked out after 4 hours of looking at the history of Canada and its role in the war. Grandpa if ...

  • 5

    Our Canadian Heroes

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    ... , we drove from Arromanches to Courseulles -- a short drive of only a few kilometers. Our first destination was the Juno Beach Centre (http://www.junobeach.org/main.html) -- dedicated exclusively to the Canadian Forces actions and sacrifices during the ...

  • 6

    On to the beaches of Normandy

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    ... Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer in the late morning.  We began our time in this area with a tour of the Juno Beach Centre, an impressive museum dedicated not only to Canada's role in the D-Day landings, but the entire Second World War.  ...

  • 7

    Canada's Juno Beach Centre

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    ... the beaches of Normandy. After a ways we decided to take the more scenic route from Honfleur to Courseulles sur mer to see Canada's Juno Beach Centre and the beaches of WW II. We didn’t realize that June 6, D-Day, is still a huge deal in France, ...

  • 8

    Juno Beach, Winnipeg Rifles

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    ... walkway about the storming of the beach and the great many who lost their lives.  We then go to the Juno Beach Centre (the centre is funded by the Juno Beach Association and not the Canadian Government).  It is called The Canadian Museum on ...

  • 9

    Remembering Normandy

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    ... We carried on around the coast to Courselles-sur-Mer, the town at Juno Beach and home to the excellent Canadian museum, the Juno Beach Centre, the opening of which Dan had played at with the Rifles band several years earlier. We spent a long time there ...

  • 10

    What would the Beach say if it could talk?

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    ... I've already booked a hotel room in Luxemburg for 2 nights before arriving in Frankfurt next Wednesday.   At the Juno Beach Center yesterday afternoon I was talking to Rebecca about the research they had done on the first French Settlers. As ...