Cherbourg: all 15 tours and excursions for your cruise

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival...

Get acquainted with making bread the traditional way at the lovely Marie Ravenel watermill in Réthoville. This gorgeous stone structure was built in the 18th century and operated as the Coudrairie watermill for over a century. Its current owners brought the place back to life recently and renamed it for Marie Ravenel, the miller and poetess who lived here for 31 years. On today's excursion learn all about the history of this ancient watermill, the process of milling grains, and get a hands-on...

Explore Cherborg at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual vehicle...

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual vehicle...

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival...

Discover the charms that await you at the tip of the Contenin peninsula in Cap de la Hague. Drive along this picturesque coastline to arrive and stroll in ruggedly beautiful Port Racine (France's smallest port) and gaze in awe at the giant cliffs of Jobourg. Enjoy the regional specialty, le crepe, with a hot drink before making the scenic drive to the pier through more lovely villages. Port Racine Departing the pier drive 30 minutes to Port Racine, named after one of...

Walk from the pier to Cherbourg's city center. Cherbourg was known to the Romans as Coriovallum, but the valley in which Cherbourg lies had earlier been settled by the Megalithic peoples of northern France. The present shape of the town is almost wholly due to more recent developments. Situated within the arc of a broad and shallow bay, Cherbourg was dangerously exposed to northwesterly gales, and was never seriously considered a viable port before Vauban began to proselytize on its behalf. Learn...

Relive one of the most historic events of World War II during this memorable, full-day excursion to Normandy. Early in the morning on June 6, 1944, about 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed a handful of beaches along the coast of Normandy, France. Although choppy seas and heavy German resistance prevented them from fully meeting their objectives that day, they were able to gain a crucial foothold. American Cemetery Depart the pier for the approximate 1.5 hour drive to Omaha Beach....

Leave Cherbourg and drive to Sainte-Mère-Eglise, located in the middle of the traditional Normandy livestock breeding area.This town brutally entered the news headlines in 1944 when the US 82nd Airborne Division troops landed here and liberated Sainte-Mère-Eglise on June 6th. Enjoy a guided visit to the village. Just in front of the Town Hall, you will see Milestone Zero symbolizing the start of the Road to Freedom. Inside the church, a modern stained-glass window features the American...

The name Val de Saire evokes wonderful scenic images not only of the delightful Saire Valley, but of the whole northeast of the peninsula. From Cherbourg you will drive to Barfleur and straight back to the Middle Ages. This picturesque fishing port and yachting harbor was once the busiest place in Cotentin, and in more recent centuries has been a favorite vacation spot for English aristocrats and monarchs. A guided visit here allows you to see its many charms for yourself.You'll follow a scenic route...

 You will drive with your local guide along the coast to Colleville-sur-Mer, site of the American Cemetery, high on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach. Nearly 9,400 servicemen and women are buried in this serene and pristine place. Continue down to Omaha Beach, scene of some of the highest casualties during the landings, and a site of the utmost importance during the landing. Then proceed to the Pointe du Hoc. Taken by storm on the morning of the 6th of June 1944 by the men of the American 2nd...

Cherbourg was known to the Romans as Coriovallum, but the valley in which Cherbourg lies had earlier been settled by the Megalithic peoples of northern France. The present shape of the town is almost wholly due to more recent developments. Situated within the arc of a broad and shallow bay, Cherbourg was dangerously exposed to northwesterly gales, and was never seriously considered a viable port before Vauban began to proselytize on its behalf.Learn about the exuberant daily activity of the fishing...

The Parc of Nacqueville castle is "... one of the prettiest places in the world", as stated by the famous 19th century French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. Laid out in 1830 by an English landscape gardener, the garden appears as a delightful park. A stream with a series of waterfalls runs down to the lake in which the Chateau is reflected. Many varieties of rhododendrons, azaleas and hydrangeas, as well as ornamental trees, clumps of giant gunnera and palm trees are spread...

Leave Cherbourg and drive to Sainte-Mère-Eglise, located in the middle of the traditional Normandy livestock breeding area.This town brutally entered the news headlines in 1944 when the US 82nd Airborne Division troops landed here and liberated Sainte-Mère-Eglise on June 6th. Enjoy a guided visit to the village. Just in front of the Town Hall, you will see Milestone Zero symbolizing the start of the Road to Freedom. Inside the church, a modern stainedglass window features the American...

Located on the west coast, the Cap de Carteret lighthouse rises to over 85 meters above sea level. Its strategic location guides navigators to the “Passage de la Déroute” between the Cotentin and the Channel Islands. Built in 1839, it was the second to last lighthouse in the region to be built. Still in operation since its construction, it was automated in 1976 and guarded until 2012. Today, it opens its doors to visitors wishing to discover this fascinating world. On site,...