Visit Villers-sur-Mer - Walk along the dike

The walk along the dike offers two beautiful views. On one side, the sea as far as the eye can see, on the other side a string of seaside villas built in the second half of the 19th century.
The Villers-sur-Mer seawall extends over 800 meters between the Cercle Nautique and the Greenwich Meridian.
On the east side of the seawall (towards Blonville-sur-Mer), a small esplanade indicates the Greenwich Meridian, symbolized on the ground by a line and an advance, the longitude at this point is exactly 0!
At the end of the promenade, on the Cercle Nautique side, you can admire the Vaches Noires cliffs, a geological and paleontological treasure. They are 100 meters high and extend over nearly 4.5 km between Villers-sur-Mer and Houlgate. They come from the accumulation of marine sediment deposits from the Jurassic (about 160 million years ago) and the Cretaceous (about 100 million years ago). In these different geological layers, numerous marine and dinosaur fossils have been discovered.