Pegasus Bridge – Jonquet Castle loop from Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay

Saint-Aubin-D'Arquenay

Pegasus Bridge – Jonquet Castle loop from Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay

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Pegasus Bridge – Jonquet Castle loop from Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay

02:24

59.1km

300m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 24, 2026

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Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 3.31 km for 118 m

After 56.6 km for 118 m

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Start point

Bus stop

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2.87 km

Château de Bénouville — open to visitors

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A huge building with a large park.
Here is the translation of the information panel:
Bénouville Castle, built in the neoclassical style, is set in a beautiful park and was built between 1769 and 1785.
It is one of the few remaining examples of the work of Enlightenment architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.
The department acquired the castle in 1927 and now wants to make it accessible to the widest possible public by opening it to visitors.

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3.36 km

Pegasus Bridge

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Just after midnight on the night of June 5-6, the two bridges of Ranville-Bénouville were captured by the British 5th Parachute Brigade after a short battle. Pegasus was their emblem. A small part of France was liberated. Major Howard had won the Battle of Pegasus and those in need had a field for gliders to land on, a movable steel bridge, a house on the water's edge, and... the Gondrée family, who at 11 a.m. saw Lord Lovat (1911- 1995) and his 'Green Berets' arrive, to the sound of a bagpipe. Now café-museum Gondrée is a meeting point for veterans and tourists. (Michelin)

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7.81 km

British 6th Airborne Division Memorial

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Nice memorial to 6th Airborne Div and 13th and 18th Royals Hussars

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25.9 km

Putot-en-Auge

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33.9 km

Monument to the executed of Saint-Pierre-du-Jonquet

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In Saint-Pierre-du-Jonquet, the bodies of shot patriots were discovered between September and November 1944. The first was found in the woods at the beginning of September, then there were six new bodies, on September 17 in the muddy water of a bomb hole and twenty-one others on November 15, 1946.
A ceremony has been organized in Saint-Pierre-du-Jonquet since 1957 on the Sunday following November 11 in memory of "the 28 men, most of them resistance fighters, who found their death in a small wood in the village, an area prohibited by the Germans. In July 1944, probably the 14th, they were cowardly tortured, shot in the back of the head and thrown into a bomb hole. » 11 victims have not yet been identified.
Source: ladives1944.com

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34.2 km

Jonquet Castle

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This house was built in the middle of the 18th century for the Honfleur-based shipowner Leroi-Beaulieu. It has retained all of its interior arrangements and its mid-18th century decor: fireplaces, paneling, paving, and ceilings. The only development carried out in the 19th century is the billiard room, which has kept all of its 1818 wallpaper from the Dufour factory, representing the Holidays in Greece and the Olympic Games.
open to the public from July 3 to August 4 and from August 14 to September 1, every day from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. except Saturday and Sunday. Free visit of the gardens.
Source: chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu

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59.1 km

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Bus stop

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