Historic sites
D-Day beaches and Normandy American Cemetery
Bayeux, Calvados
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Natural features
Étretat cliffs
Étretat, Seine-Maritime
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.
Attractions
Monet's House and Gardens, Giverny
Les Andelys, Eure
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…
Historic sites
Mont-Saint-Michel
Avranches, Manche
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…
Historic sites
Bayeux Tapestry
Bayeux, Calvados
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…
Walks and treks
Cap de la Hague
Beaumont-Hague, Manche
The wild northwest tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, with high cliffs, heathland and tiny harbours, often compared with Ireland or Cornwall.
Historic sites
Abbaye du Bec-Hellouin
Brionne, Eure
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…
Historic sites
Château de Carrouges
Magny-le-Désert, Orne
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…