Cherbourg

Discover the port

Campsite 20 minutes from Cherbourg in La Manche

Just 20 minutes from Le Grand Large campsite in La Manche ****, the town of Cherbourg has become a magnet for art and history lovers and botany enthusiasts alike.

A port of influence anchored on the English Channel, facing the Anglo-Saxon islands of Jersey and Guernsey, Cherbourg has long been a strategic position in wartime. During the Second World War, the city was the main target of Allied troops in the liberation of France.

It was against this historical backdrop that La Cité de la Mer was built, now one of Normandy’s must-see tourist attractions. La Cité de la Mer is a fun, family-friendly science park where you can venture into the “Aquaryum Abyssal”, the deepest in Europe, and discover the world’s only visitable nuclear submarine! Stroll along the immense Cherbourg roadstead, a monumental 18th-century work of art ordered by Louis XIV to Vauban, and now the largest artificial harbor in the world.