Forts, fortifications, arsenals in the English Channel

Patrimoine défensif
50840 Fermanville

The Fort du Cap Lévi, built in the 19th century in Fermanville, Normandy, is an ancient Napoleonic military work overlooking the district of Cherbourg, now transformed into a residence and open to the public.

50480 Sainte-Mère-Église

Ravenoville's dread, built in the 17th century in Sainte-Mère-Église (Manche), is a former military work designed to protect the Cotentin from enemy landings under Louis XIV.

50100 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

The artillery battery of the Roule, built in the 20th century in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Normandy), is a German underground ensemble integrated into the Atlantic Wall, dominating the harbour and the city from the Roule Mountain.

Fortification
50250 Doville

The Doville Guard, a 17th-century military building, dominates Mount Doville in Normandy. A vestige of Cotentin's coastal defence under the Old Regime, it is classified as a historical monument.

Fortification
50170 Le Mont-Saint-Michel

The fortifications of Mont-Saint-Michel, built between the 13th and 16th centuries, form a defensive urban enclosure girding the islet in Normandy, classified as historical monuments and UNESCO.

50100 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

The East Fort, built in the 19th century in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, is a ruined military structure that is part of the fortifications of the artificial rade, the second largest in the world.

Fortification
50440 Beaumont-Hague

The Hague-Dick site in Beaumont-Hague, Normandy, is a historic monument dating from the Protohistory and the Middle Ages, classified for its protected plots since 1988.

50440 La Hague

The Auderville-la-Roche coastal artillery battery, built in the 1940s in La Hague, is a German military vestige of World War II, integrated into the Atlantic Wall with 24 defensive structures.