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Useful Links for Your Stay in Normandy
Getting There
Attractions
- Giverny:
Monet's Home and Garden
- Clos de Coudray:
Not as well known as Giverny, but its equal, at least, in beauty.
- Parc du Bois des Moutiers:
77 acre garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll surrounding a house designed by Edwin Lutyens. The garden, renowned for its vast rhododendrons, is open to the public;the house can be viewed by special arrangement. Further down at the end of the road through Varengeville is a little church overlooking the channel with a stained glass window by Georges Braques who is buried in the cemetery.
- Allouville-Bellefosse:
A hamlet with a children's zoo, and a huge oak containg two tiny seventeenth-century chapels.
Theme Parks
Town and City Sights and Information
- Bayeux:
Tapestry and D-Day Landing Museums
- Dieppe:
With its pedestrian shopping street, quayside fish restaurants and the harbour, an extensive street market on Saturday, long beach and enclosed playground nearby. Towering on the hills above to the west, the chateau with the world's largest collection of carved ivory, created over the centuries by sailors from Dieppe who spent months on their ships off the African coast.
- Étretat:
The Falaise Coast
- Fécamp:
The Côte d'Albâtre and Bénédictine liqueur
- Honfleur:
Medieval Port
- Rouen:
City of William the Conqueror and Joan of Arc
- Veules les Roses:
Site of France's shortest river!
Regional Information
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