Saint-Lô

Saint-Lô is the capital of the Manche department in Normandy. As of the 2012 census, population was just under 19,000.

Understand

Saint-Lô, summer 1944

The town was the scene of heavy fighting during World War II, shortly after the D-Day landings, and was utterly devastated. As one American soldier put it "We sure liberated the hell out of this place."

Sleep

Go next

Routes through Saint-Lô
Cherbourg Sainte-Mère-Église  N  S  Rennes / Caen


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