A Benedictine abbey founded in 1034 in a green valley of Normandy, once one of the great centres of learning in Europe: two of its monks, Lanfranc and Anselm, became Archbishops of Canterbury. Monks still live here today, and the 15th-century Saint-Nicolas tower stands over the cloisters and gardens.
The half-timbered village of Le Bec-Hellouin is one of the prettiest in Normandy.
The house where Claude Monet lived for 43 years, and the gardens he created and painted again and again: a flower garden bursting with colour, and ac…
Dramatic white chalk cliffs on the Normandy coast, with natural arches and a needle of rock standing in the sea, painted by Monet and Courbet.
A grand red-brick château surrounded by a moat in the Normandy bocage, built and changed between the 14th and 17th centuries and home to the same fam…
Le Corbusier's famous white villa, built in 1931 as a weekend house and one of the most influential buildings of the 20th century.
A royal and then presidential château southwest of Paris, used by French presidents to host summits until 2009.
A 70 m long embroidered cloth from the 11th century that tells the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, ending with the Battle of Hasting…
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