Battlefields to visit in France
32 battles in France with memorials, monuments, museums or other sites recorded in Wikidata.
Red: battle locations. Blue: memorials and sites that commemorate them. Every point is drawn.
Quick answers
- Which battlefields can you visit in France?
- 32 battles here have 49 memorials, monuments, museums or other sites recorded in Wikidata, led by Battle of Spicheren (6), Normandy landings (5), Battle of Formigny (3), Battle of Flers–Courcelette (3).
Battles and what to see
- Battle of Spicheren 1870
- Battle of Spicheren Memorial Cross monumental cross
- Denkmal der 39er war memorial
- Denkmal der 40er war memorial
- Denkmal der 48er war memorial
- Denkmal der 74er war memorial
- Monument for the 12th Grenadiers war memorial
- Normandy landings 1944
- British Normandy Memorial World War II memorial
- Horsa sculpture sculpture, war memorial
- Omaha beach Signal memorial memorial
- Signal (Graye-sur-Mer) monument
- World War II D-day Training Site commemorative plaque
- Battle of Formigny 1450
- Borne de la bataille de Formigny cautionary memorial
- Monument to the Battle of Formigny cautionary memorial
- chapelle Saint-Louis de Formigny chapel
- Battle of Flers–Courcelette 1916
- 41st British Division Memorial war memorial
- Courcelette Memorial war memorial
- Longueval New Zealand Memorial memorial, war memorial
- Dieppe Raid 1942
- Canadian Engineers Memorial war memorial
- Newhaven Memorial Garden memorial garden
- Parc de Dieppe park
- Battle of the Somme 1916
- 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Memorial Celtic cross, war memorial
- Thiepval Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained memorial
- Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918
- 58th (London) Division Memorial war memorial
- Le Quesnel Memorial war memorial
- Battle of Fontenoy (841) 841
- Obélisque de Fontenoy-en-Puisaye obelisk
- Battle of Val-ès-Dunes 1047
- Colonne de la bataille du Val-ès-Dunes cautionary memorial
- Combat of the Thirty 1351
- Colonne des Trente obelisk, war memorial
- Battle of St. Quentin (1557) 1557
- Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial Monument (Spain), Roman Catholic monastery
- Siege of Chartres (1568) 1568
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Brèche chapel, monument
- Battle of Arques 1589
- Battle of Denain 1712
- Siege of Lille (1792) 1792
- Column of the Goddess victory column
- Battle of Champaubert 1814
- Mémorial napoléonien memorial column
- Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870
- Battle of Hallue 1870
- Colonne Faidherbe column, monument
- Siege of Belfort 1870
- Battle of Sedan 1870
- Sedan Memorial Tree remarkable tree
- Battle of Buzenval (1871) 1871
- Memorial to the soldiers who died during the battle of Buzenval in 1871 tomb, war memorial
- Battle of St. Quentin (1914) 1914
- Battle of Les Éparges 1915
- Monument du 106e régiment d'infanterie monument, war memorial
- Second Battle of Artois 1915
- Loretto-Stein war memorial
- Battle of Verdun 1916
- Hill 304 Memorial war memorial
- Battle of Arras (1917) 1917
- Dury Memorial war memorial
- Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917
- Vimy Ridge Memorial Park memorial park, urban park
- Battle of Cantigny 1918
- Cantigny American Monument war memorial
- Second Battle of the Somme 1918
- Thiepval Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained memorial
- Second Battle of the Marne 1918
- 'The Ghosts' sculpture, war memorial
- Dunkirk evacuation 1940
- RNLI Dunkirk Memorial war memorial
- Battle of Dunkirk 1940
Places that Wikidata records as commemorating the battle (property P547: memorials, monuments, museums, cemeteries, visitor sites), with their Wikidata positions (CC0). Check opening times and access before you go.