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+33 0 76 05 58 946Normandy has several places and traditions classified or listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, but also villages classified among the "Most beautiful villages in France" and spas. Beyond these remarkable sites, and many beautiful detours, each town and village in Normandy is to be discovered!
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From Mont-Saint-Michel to Tréport, from Cherbourg to Alençon, Normandy offers a fantastic mosaic of landscapes. Explore places steeped in history, take advantage of wide open spaces and meet the local population.
Time, storms and an underground river have sculpted Normandy's most famous natural site in chalk: immaculate white cliffs to which erosion has given spectacular shapes, inspiring both painters and visitors. The site, crisscrossed by hiking trails, is an ideal getaway for those who want a breath of fresh air. A word of advice: avoid spring bridges and high summer, when the cliffs are overcrowded.
Port city built 120 km from the sea, Rouen is above all a city of art and history, marked by great artistic figures such as Flaubert, Monet or Corneille. Its historic center conceals many traces of a prosperity built on maritime trade and the textile industry: cathedral, Saint-Ouen abbey, Saint-Maclou church, courthouse... Largely pedestrianized, the city, crowned capital of the new region.
A village, an abbey and a natural site blended into a harmonious unity of place, human constructions sublimely staged by nature, a setting that evolves according to the movements of the clouds, the tides, the sun and the sand... the Mont- Saint-Michel is all of these things at the same time. One of the most visited tourist sites in France, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1979, the Mont is a place to fully appreciate and preserve, against all odds.
The first vision is a postcard image: slate houses reflecting in the peaceful waters of the Vieux Bassin. But the port from which Samuel de Champlain sailed to found the city of Quebec is more than that. Both Norman and Parisian, more and more frequented by its Belgian and British neighbours, Honfleur manages to remain traditional while being firmly rooted in its time. The city is as touristic on weekends and during the summer months as it is peaceful during the week off season.
Only separated by the bed of the Touques, Deauville the socialite and Trouville the family form a universe apart. On one side, a seaside resort created by Parisian notables and self-proclaimed “21st arrondissement of Paris”; on the other, a Norman port discovered by artists and popularized by the fashion for sea bathing and paid holidays. Everyone will find their happiness in one or the other.
Inseparable from its Memorial, a vibrant tribute to peace, the prefecture of Calvados knew how to reinvent itself after the Second World War. Active, student, cultural, the former industrial city and large commercial port seduces with its narrow streets, its Place Saint-Sauveur and its abbeys. Alongside a city center rebuilt after the war, they recall the past of this city which experienced its golden age under William the Conqueror.
Miraculously spared by the bombardments of 1944, Bayeux has retained its character despite the passage of centuries and armies. Formerly one of the flagship cities of the Duchy of Normandy, it attracts visitors with the atmosphere of its narrow streets, its historic buildings and its memorial sites linked to the Second World War, but also and above all with its astonishing tapestry (in fact an embroidery), 70 m long, striking testimony to Norman history inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
For many, the “real Normandy”, that of green and greasy grass, thatched cottages and half-timbered houses. Remained "in its own juice" despite the proximity of the capital and the seaside resorts of the coast, the Pays d'Auge smells good of the soil and has kept a touch of rusticity. On the program: apples, cider, cheeses, horses, fresh air, and above all the satisfaction of finding countryside spots that give meaning to the word “bucolic”.
Surprise in 2005: Le Havre is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This city almost invariably described under its only industrial face would it have hidden attractions? Not so hidden, in fact. And even frankly monumental: largely destroyed by the bombings of 1944, the great Norman port was rebuilt by a visionary architect, Auguste Perret, and has never ceased to interest avant-garde designers. In Le Havre, concrete has a story to tell
They do not form the most attractive coastline in Normandy, but the beaches chosen for the Allied landings in June 1944 are nevertheless among the most fascinating sites in the region. Plunging visitors back into one of the most glorious and dramatic episodes in the history of the 20th century, these places of memory leave no one indifferent. From the Côte de Nacre to the beginning of the Cotentin, each beach, site, memorial and cemetery tells a particular human story.
Cherbourg has a taste for records: not content with having the largest artificial harbor in the world – 1,500 ha protected by a 4 km dyke –, the port has offered itself the deepest aquarium in Europe (11 m), which the Cité de la Mer unveils to the delighted eyes of visitors, while Le Redoutable, another attraction of this oceanographic museum, is the largest submarine open to the public.
As you approach Bec-Hellouin, only the Saint-Nicolas tower, the remnant of a huge church, sticks out from the trees surrounding the abbey nestled in the green valley. Founded in 1034, it was a high place of intellectual and theological life in the Middle Ages: an almost millennial history, interrupted by the Revolution, restored and extended by a new monastic community since 1948. A stay at Bec-Hellouin allows you to appreciate the rejuvenating calm of the flowery village, with barely more than 400 inhabitants, whose small half-timbered houses cross the centuries to the peaceful rhythm of the bells of the abbey
Normandy also has its “rock”: surrounded by romantic ramparts and having counted Christian Dior among its prestigious inhabitants, who left a superb museum there, Granville is also the port of entry to the largest archipelago in Europe. The number of Chausey Islands would vary from 52 at high tide to 365 at low tide, i.e. the number of weeks and days in a year... A land of deep poetry, skinned alive, and frequented just as much by fishermen for its abundant fish than by the quarries for its granite… and by 200 species of birds which make it a protected area
To try it is to adopt it, say its fans. Little-known Dieppe is indeed not lacking in attractions. In addition to its atmosphere which knows how to be both a port and a seaside resort, and its activities on land and at sea, the city is distinguished by its heritage: historic heart partly pedestrianized, superb Saint-Jacques church, Pollet district with old fishermen's houses in brick… Let's add a secret weapon of the city and its surroundings: skies which inspired the greatest artists, in particular Delacroix and Monet
Human constructions and natural landscapes sometimes combine to create exceptional sites. This is the case of Barfleur, a tiny port which nevertheless occupies a large place on the Normandy coast. Hailed as one of the “most beautiful villages in France”, Barfleur owes its beauty to the harmony of its granite houses set on a spit of land advancing into the waters of the Cotentin, like a finger pointing at England. A legend reports that it was here that the ship was built that took William from Normandy to Hastings in 1066.