Gold Beach

Gold Beach is the D-Day shoreline by Arromanches-les-Bains where British forces landed on 6 June 1944 as Operation Overlord began the liberation of Western Europe. Offshore, the concrete caissons of the Mulberry harbour—an artificial port assembled in June 1944—turned this stretch of sand into a feat of wartime engineering as well as a battlefield, funnelling troops, vehicles, and supplies into Normandy. In the quiet surf and weathered blocks at sea, locals and visitors alike read a seascape that has become a memorial to sacrifice and resolve.