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.
Historic sites in Normandie, France
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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…
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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…
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…