You want to visit the Verdun battlefield but you don't know where to start? Let yourself be guided with the battlefield tour by bus, which will lead you to the vestiges of the Great War.
During 4 hours, on board a bus, the tourist office proposes you a guided tour through the "Red Zone". Punctuated by stops on the essential 14-18 sites, this "turnkey" tour is a great way to discover and understand the 1916 Battle of Verdun.
The guided tour will first take you to the Fort of Douaumont, the most powerful fortress of Verdun. Then you will go to the Ossuary of Douaumont, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the First World War in Verdun in 1916. The visit will continue at the National Necropolis of Douaumont, which houses 15,000 graves of soldiers who died for France
Finally, you will stop at the destroyed village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont. Taken and recaptured 16 times in 2 months by French and German soldiers, it is one of the 9 villages completely devastated in the Red Zone of Verdun.
- Average duration 4 Hours
- Languages spoken French
From 12.04.2023 to 04.11.2023
Adult : 29 € for adults
8 to 15 years old included: 20 € (for adults)
3 to 7 years old included: 10 €.
Less than 3 years old : free
- The guided bus tour
- The visit of the Fort of Douaumont
- The visit of the Douaumont Ossuary
- The Necropolis of Douaumont
- The village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont
April: 12 / 15 / 19 / 22 / 26 / 29
May: 3 / 6 / 20
July: 1 / 5 / 8 / 12 / 15 / 19 / 21 / 22 / 26 / 28 / 29
August: 2 / 4 / 5 / 9 / 11 / 12 / 16 / 18 / 19 / 23 / 25 / 26 / 30
September: 1 / 2 / 6 / 9 / 11
October: 21 / 25 / 28
November: 4
- A moving tour on the traces of the First World War
- A "turnkey" visit of the major sites of the battle of Verdun
SEML Touristique du Grand Verdun
The Verdun Tourist Office offers you guided tours of the city, the Battlefield, but also of unusual places that you might not have known existed.
On foot, by bus or by bike, live a unique experience in Verdun.
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