The wild northwest tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, with high cliffs, heathland and tiny harbours, often compared with Ireland or Cornwall. The Nez de Jobourg cliffs are among the highest in Europe, and the Goury lighthouse stands off the cape in the fierce tidal race.
The little port of Goury and the village of Omonville-la-Petite, where the poet Jacques Prévert lived, are lovely stops.
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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 spectacular headland on Brittany's Emerald Coast, with pink and grey sandstone cliffs over 70 metres high, purple heather and gorse, and colonies o…
Saint-Malo, the walled corsair city on the Brittany coast, was largely rebuilt after the Second World War, and its granite ramparts make a complete w…
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…
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.
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