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 family for 500 years. Inside, a monumental staircase and rooms of portraits and furniture recall its history.
The park and the Renaissance gatehouse in front of the moat are lovely in spring.
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…
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 an…
A rocky tidal island in the bay between Normandy and Brittany, crowned by a Benedictine abbey begun in the 8th century and rebuilt over the following…
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
One of the most perfect Gothic cathedrals, built mostly between 1194 and 1220 and keeping almost all its original stained glass, famous for its deep …
A château on a cliff above the River Loir that combines a 12th-century keep, a Gothic wing and a Renaissance wing, built for Dunois, a companion of J…
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