Arromanches-les-Bains

Arromanches-les-Bains is a small Normandy resort whose shoreline became a hinge of 20th-century history on 6 June 1944, when the Allied landings opened the way to liberate France. Just offshore lie the broken caissons of the Mulberry Harbour, a temporary port assembled in days to land men, vehicles, and supplies at a scale no natural harbor could match. The calm sweep of the English Channel and the concrete ribs in the tide keep the town’s everyday life in constant dialogue with memory, and for many it remains one of D-Day’s most legible landscapes.