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Sua excursão privada para locais decisivos da Segunda Guerra Mundial começa com o embarque pela manhã em seu hotel no centro de Bruxelas. Seu guia, apaixonado e bem-informado, contará diversos fatos históricos e histórias sobre a Batalha do Bulge e pode personalizar seu itinerário para adequá-lo a seus interesses particulares.

Viaje em um luxuoso veículo privado para Cemitério americano de Henri-Chapelle, onde quase 8.000 soldados estão sepultados. As fileiras de lápides são assombrosas. Sua próxima parada é um memorial entre Büllingen e Bütgenbach, dedicado aos soldados da 1ª Divisão de Infantaria -- a mais antiga divisão do Exército dos EUA -- que lutaram bravamente contra o ataque alemão. A divisão foi apelidada The Big Red One (A Grande Número Um Vermelha) por causa do algarismo 1 em vermelho nos distintivos em seus ombros.

Continue até o local do massacre Malmedy, onde 84 prisioneiros de guerra americanos foram assassinados brutalmente pela SS. Durante o almoço (por conta do visitante) na pequena cidade de Stavelot, sinta-se à vontade para esclarecer com seu guia quaisquer dúvidas que você possa ter. Após o almoço, veja um tanque alemão Tiger II abandonado em La Gleize, um pequeno vilarejo que levou uma surra durante a Batalha do Bulge.

Em seguida atravesse a fronteira para Hamm em Luxemburgo e visite o Cemitério americano de Luxemburgo e Memorial. Veja onde o General americano Patton e 5.076 militares americanos estão sepultados.

De lá, continue até o Cemitério de Guerra Alemão de Recogne, onde estão sepultados quase 7.000 soldados. Enquanto você viaja através de Foy, mantenha-se atento para ver algumas trincheiras intactas às margens dos bosques. Sua próxima parada é um dos locais mais comoventes dessa jornada, o Memorial Mardasson, próximo de Bastogne. Esse enorme memorial homenageia a memória dos quase 77.000 soldados americanos mortos ou feridos durante a Batalha do Bulge.

Se você quiser aprender mais sobre a Batalha do Bulge, explore as telas interativas no Museu de Guerra de Bastogne (por conta do visitante). Em Bastogne, você também verá um tanque Sherman preservado e monumentos dedicado a dois famosos generais americanos -- general McAuliffe e general Patton.

Saia de Bastogne e passe pelo belo vale do Meuse e ao longo da estrada de volta para Bruxelas. Sua memorável excursão particular de 12 horas pelos locais históricos da Batalha do Bulge termina em seu hotel em Bruxelas aproximadamente às 20h.

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Incluído

Embarque e desembarque no hotel
Transporte em veículo privado
Guia profissional

Não incluído

Entrada para o Museu de Guerra de Bastogne (aprox. 12 euros)
Comida e bebida
Gorjetas (opcionais)

Adicional

A confirmação será recebida até 48 horas após a reserva, sujeita à disponibilidade
O Museu da guerra de Bastogne fica aberto de terça a domingo (diariamente em julho e agosto)

Características

Turismo

95%

Cultural

80%

Análises

4.5

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Emily L

5 | 2019-07-15

Jean and his wife Linda were amazing tour guides and we learned so much about the Battle of the Bulge. He has a standard tour route but does tailor it to what you would like to see - including Spa's F1 racetrack for my husband. We saw more than I ever thought we would in one day. Worth every penny. He is retiring after this year, so be sure to book this tour before he does! He also does WWI and Waterloo tours.

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Twylah B

5 | 2019-07-03

Jean was very knowledgeable and flexible with his itinerary. We got to see items off the normal path. It was humbling to walk through the woods and see foxholes still exist from the 101st Airborne group outside of Bastogne. I highly recommend it!

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Johanna V

5 | 2017-11-12

We were fortunate to have Jean and his wife Linda as our guides on this tour. It was a full day that was well organized to ensure that we were able to really experience the history of the area. Jean was very knowledgeable, experienced and organized in his approach to the trip. We covered a lot of territory and enjoyed the excursion.

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James M

4 | 2017-09-20

We thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Our guide was a very lovely man and went out of his way to take us to all that was important on this tour. The only thing we were a bit disappointed in was his English was a bit hard to understand at times. But apart from that a very good tour.

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William D

5 | 2016-08-30

Jean deserves a 6 or even a 10 rating on this tour!! He was everything I had read about and that much more. My Father was in the 101st Airborne at Bastogne when the famous Nuts response was uttered Jean was aware that our interests were to follow the path of my Father and he did an outstanding job making it happen. He was also great with his sense of direction to get us to the nearest pharmacy so I could buy some gauze to bandage my arm when I accidentally stepped off a curb. Through all of this, he was able to cover all the critical elements of the tour in a timely fashion. Thank you Jean for an outstanding job.

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Susan K

1 | 2015-08-12

We travel often and have taken lots of tours, both private and group. This was, without a doubt, the WORST tour we have ever had. If you are thinking of booking this tour, SAVE YOUR MONEY! This was more of a really expensive taxi service than a tour. His lack of knowledge and history regarding World War II made us speculate if he had just decided he could make money doing this tour, so went to the museum to pick up a couple of quotes that he could just parrot over and over, thus qualifying himself as a tour guide. His lack of real knowledge on the subject was breathtaking, He was like a museum audio tour and just kept repeating the same short factoids over and over, no matter what you asked. The day pretty much went along with him telling us a very brief and obvious anecdote about where we were going, then driving the rest of the way mostly in silence, then pulling up to the site, him pointing to it and saying, there it is, then driving on to the next place. Half the time we didn't even get out of the car, and these sites were sometimes an hour apart. It was a lot of silence, unless he was talking about himself. If this is the only tour you can find, you are better off just finding a ride to the World War II Museum. It is a truly great and well done museum, and only about 5 minutes from Jack's Woods if you want to go see the foxholes. Our guide almost made us miss the Museum too. He was uninformed about the last entry time as well as how long it should take someone with any real interest in the subject to go through it. We were so disgusted with his tour that we requested he take us to the museum about two hours earlier than he was going to. We actually got there about 15 minutes before the last entry, and whereas he had originally planned on us being there about thirty minutes, it realistically takes about two hours to do the different exhibits and displays. If you are looking for a Battle of the Bulge tour, you can certainly do better than this one.

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Brian L

4 | 2014-07-27

The tour guide was excellent. We had the choice to vary the tour and agreed to visit the Luxemburg cemetery to visit General Patton's grave. The tour guide also showed us around Luxemburg City, which was a bonus. I would recommend this tour.

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