image for illustration: Omaha Beach, Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, reports Reuters.
Reuters writes:
In a statement on its website, UNESCO said that ?the beaches formed an ‘exceptional cultural landscape shaped both by the events of 1944 and by their enduring remembrance’, which therefore justified becoming a protected heritage site.
