Sainte-Marie-du-Mont Trip Overview
If you have never followed this period in history, then you will be quickly immersed. The children will love to get in the Jeep and act “as if” and the grown-ups will get into the game … no choice, crikets in hand, the enemy is lurking ….
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Starts: Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France
If you have never followed this period in history, then you will be quickly immersed. The children will love to get in the Jeep and act “as if” and the grown-ups will get into the game … no choice, crikets in hand, the enemy is lurking ….
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Holdy Militaria, 18 Place de l Eglise, 50480 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont France
A round trip not like the others
Let yourself be led close to a German artillery position located 6 km from Utah Beach in the hamlet of Holdy in Sainte Marie du Mont, a historic center for American paratroopers. On the village square and greeted by French civilians, your guide picks you up in a 1944 Jeep Willys. At the end of the day and after that timeless moment, your driver accompanies you.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Holdy Militaria, 18 Place de l Eglise, 50480 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont France
ATYPICAL VISIT …
You are transported through different places (parachuting zones, airplane spits and gliders, bunker, etc.) to make you relive the events. You are told the story through testimonies of soldiers and civilians, vintage photos and archives. Along the way, you visit the battery of the German aerial artillery Holdy composed of 4 guns that the Americans managed to take.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Holdy Militaria, 18 Place de l Eglise, 50480 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont France
… CHILLS, EMOTIONS, SPECIAL AND ADRENALIN EFFECTS
On the paths of the Normandy bocage, you are dropped off alone with a cricket. You then go in search of American paratroopers whose mission is to take the Holdy’s Battery. Imagine yourself lost in the woods and feel the emotion of the paratroopers landing in hostile and unknown environment.
Duration: 1 hour