2025 Anzac Tours to the Somme and Flanders battlefields
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For over 20 years France at Leisure has organised ANZAC tours to the Somme and Flanders battlefields sites and monuments. Our 2025 Anzac tours have been specifically designed to cover WWI battlefield sites and are designed for Australian travellers.
Picture standing in the shadow of the Menin Gate, or at the Villers Bretonneux Anzac Day daun Service, the air around you filled with the atmospheric notes of the Last Post...
Whether you have relatives who fought on the Western Front or a keen interest in historic military tours, our ANZAC tours allow you to explore key WWI battlefields and immerse yourself in endless stories of soldiers’ bravery.
Some of our expert-led battlefield tours fall on ANZAC Day itself, giving you the opportunity to pay your respects in person. Venture along Europe’s backroads to battlefields that remain forever entrenched in history. This fascinating and moving tour focuses on the major areas of British and Commonwealth involvement across the Western Front – from The Somme to Flanders. Providing guests with a level of flexibility to visit memorials to his (or her) country’s fallen, and the expert knowledge of our Tour Leaders – this tour promises to be as unforgettable as it is enlightening.
Our local partners have offered our signature Battlefields tours of France and Belgium for over twenty years. Each one is led by our expert Battlefields Tour Leaders, some of whom are former servicemen and women – and all of whom have a keen interest in history. Our 2024 Anzac Tours professional guides specialise in taking Australians to memorials, battlefields, and military cemeteries and visiting the gravesites of fallen relatives and friends. Whether your interest is personal or historical, our tours are extremely informative.
FOR THE 2025 ANZAC TOURS, WE CAN OFFER THESE TWO OPTIONS.
- Anzac Day ceremony in Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme tour - 7 Days/6 nights.
This tour has two departure dates - 20th, 21st and 22nd April 2025. -
Anzac on the Western Front the Somme & Flanders - 6 Day/5 Night tour
This tour has various departure dates from May to October 2025.
A few of the sites visited during the tour: Adelaide Cemetery / Villers-Bretonneux Franco-Australian Museum and School / Australian National Memorial / Albert, Pozieres / Beaumont Hamel Trench Park / Australian 1st Division Memorials…
Amiens - Gothic and medieval sights abound in this simply gorgeous city. Don’t miss a boat trip around Les Hortillonnages (floating gardens), a visit to the 800-year-old Amiens Cathedral listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a wander through the boutique-lined alleyways of Quartier Saint-Leu. Linger longer, so you can take in the incredible archaeological finds at the Musée de Picardie and the wonderful eccentricities at Jules Verne’s old home.
Villers-Bretonneux - Thousands of Australian tourists travel the Remembrance Trail through northern France every year, and Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme region is at its very heart. This was the site of the first tank battle in history, as well as epic clashes during World War I, now memorialised by world-class museums such as the Australian National Memorial and the Sir John Monash Centre.
