Forts, fortifications, arsenals in the English Channel

Fours à boulets
50400 Granville

The bougir des boulets de la pointe du Roc, built in the 18th century in Granville, Normandy, is a historic military building linked to coastal defence. This casemate lamp furnace illustrates the military architecture of the time.

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.

Fortification
50300 Avranches

The fortifications of Avranches, built in the 13th century, are a medieval defensive system protecting the old town, located in the Manche in Normandy.

50120 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

The dread of the Couplets is a military building from the 1st quarter of the 19th century, located in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Normandy), a witness to the fortifications of the Place de Cherbourg.

50440 La Hague

Alderville-Laye's coastal artillery battery, built in the 1940s in La Hague, is a German military vestige of World War II, equipped with long-range marine guns.

50480 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont

The dread of Audouville, built at the end of the 17th century in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in Normandy, is a military work designed to protect the Cotentin from enemy landings, with its ditches still in water today.

50840 Fermanville

The Hamburg coastal artillery battery, built in the 2nd quarter of the 20th century in Fermanville, Normandy, is a key work of the Atlantic Wall equipped with 240 mm guns to defend the Cherbourg harbour.

Fortification
50400 Granville

The guard corps of the Granville Pier, built in the 18th century, is a coastal military building located in the Channel, in Granville, Normandy, to monitor and defend the coasts.